“When we remember that the people we stumble

into on a day-to-day basis are all

just works-in-progress, it gives us permission to have

greater patience, compassion and love towards

them. Not unlike ourselves, they’re trying to pilot

the plane while they build it. They’re learning as they

go. Failing more often than succeeding.

And, at times, finding themselves desperately

close to giving up. If we have one single

responsibility as humans, it’s to love (or at the

very least respect) one another through this

work-in-progress. It’s being empathetic

to the fact that nobody is exactly who they want to be,

nor where they want to be, but they’re working

like hell to get there.”

Cole Schafer (January Black), One Minute, Please? (Page 21)