I built a grounding for all of my current social skills through playing online games with people I'd never seen nor met. It made it possible for me to look at people as pure minds: not black or white or brown or yellow, not male or female, not obese or anorexic, none of these things. It let me understand what it meant to lead, and what it meant to facilitate. It let me understand power, and being without it. It let me speak with people who were interested in conversations ranging into the metaphysical; such people are rare. And it also let me understand why it wasn't enough, because when a friend of yours is crying and you don't even know what they look like, you realize you need to see them, touch them, and hold them.
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