On the other side of addiction is, in a sense, philosophy – philosophy understood as the patient, unfrightened, compassionate examination of the contents of our own minds.

另一方面上瘾，以哲学角度来说，是一位患者，坚强并且关切地检视自己的心灵状态。

Such a gesture implies that we like another person not under a mistaken notion that they are flawless but with a full and unfrightened appreciation of their frailties.

这样的姿态意味着我们喜欢另一个人并不是出于对他们完美无瑕的错误观念，而是出于对他们弱点的充分和无所畏惧的欣赏。

They are unfrightened by their own strangeness and are committed to informing those around them of it in very good time, and apologising retrospectively when they have failed to do so.

他们不会因自己的陌生感而害怕， 并致力于及时将其告知周围的人，并在未能这样做时追溯道歉。