Sergio, a couchsurfing host, taxi driver and illustrator, shared a piece of Albert Einstein’s beautiful essay with me in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina. According to Einstein, we exist for our fellow men. These words made me realize that no matter of space and time, great minds think alike. English below.

The World As I See It

What an extraordinary situation is that of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he feels it. But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men – in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy.

The following wise words of Mr. Einstein:

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.