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Many people marvel at the individuality of the human being. However, far fewer show respect for the singularity of each person.

The former is born of egocentrism; the latter, of empathy.

[NOTE]. This annotation was originally published in Spanish exactly as in the paragraph above. As with all other annotations included in the original print edition, I was aiming to express the broadest possible meaning with the fewest possible words.

Nonetheless, for various reasons, this is—personally—one of the most meaningful annotations in the entire work, and I’d like to pause briefly here.

Although all words have semantic relationships, the fact is that words—and language as a whole—also carry a vibrational frequency. And it is this vibrational frequency that shapes our ways of thinking, and therefore, our ways of acting.

Something quite common is that admiration is often confused with respect in everyday language. This is not entirely wrong; however, it becomes harmful when respect is replaced by admiration. Still, the core of the annotation lies in the notion of individuality, which unconsciously keeps us locked into one of the greatest afflictions humanity must learn to overcome: the idea of competitiveness.

The idea of competitiveness constantly pushes us to ‘want to be better than…’, or in other words, ‘to fight in order to achieve…’, thus keeping us away from the inevitable need for cooperation within the human species.

In my own terms, individuality is a harmful word.

Singularity, on the other hand, is a concept that allows us to recognize the uniqueness of every person in this world, without the need for anyone to compete, win, or lose.