Great comment! I think you really summed things of in a rather profound way of self-reflection, and I would say your words are indeed part...a very big part of the solution, as how we create a world we can call "playground Planet Earth"

Your words that jumped out at me:

...makes one take a step back and question things, a whole helluva lot of things. It's not entirely comfortable, but that's the only way real progress is made."