I’ve always had a soft spot for knowing more about the world around me, and discovering new ways to “survive” in this vast world. Even learning the very indirect lessons from the Daodejing, is really exciting to me. It makes you ponder, and find the answers yourself. Whenever I sit down to do the reading, I have countless ideas popping up at the back of my head, connecting these philosophies to things I see in my every day life. It makes me wonder just how it was living in that era. Was there a time traveler, or something, that went back to give them the gift of such fundamental truths? How…