“[D]rop your obligations. Don’t try to help the world because you “should.” Don’t force yourself because you ought to. Just do what you want to do. And then, once you are freed of your obligations, if you ever realize that serving only yourself has a hollowness to it; or if you ever realize that part of what you care about is your fellow people; or if you ever learn to see the darkness in this world and discover that you really need the world to be different than it is; if you ever find something on this pale blue dot worth fighting for, worth defending, worth carrying with us to the stars: then know that there are those of us who fight, and that we’d be honored to have you at our side.”

— Nate Soares, Altruistic motivations (2015)