How should I think of other people's lives, as if they were a single painting

The only escape from a suffocating daily routine. "At this point, you can simply think of other people's lives as a single painting and watch over them."
Is this answer, drawn out by being driven to a dead end by comparisons with others, hope or resignation for a middle-aged man?
The recordings were done by themselves, and, as with the previous album, the mixing and mastering were carried out at Soichiro Nakamura's peace music studio.