To care, to share, to live and love, these universal things, these essential human aspirations, and all that's required to embrace them, is a strong enough desire for more than the less, you're presently trying hard not to be swallowed by!
Fear though, fear and the memory of loss hold so many still in place.
For if a tree can grow in Brooklyn, and a rose was seen rising through the concrete of Oakland, what then can deny you the life your heart aches for?