And for anyone else that needs reminding, listen close.

I’ve been watching a lot of sports lately, not for pleasure, but because it’s the only thing in the news that doesn’t make my heart race. I wonder, sometimes, what will kill me first, guns or climate change. There’s so much going on, too much, and it doesn’t end, it never will, it seems. It’s infuriating, and it’s terrifying. But I have to remind myself.

There’s still flowers, and good music, and frogs with funny faces, and people still can be kind and people are falling in love right now, right now! There’s people out there with eyes like the moon, fuck, the moon exists, and that’s pretty cool. There’s little kids with big dreams and people following their dreams, someone right now (!) could be finding what makes their heart buzz with electric joy and maybe it’s you, maybe it’s not yet, the moon exists! And dogs will always look at you with love in their eyes and there will always be shiny rocks on the ground to collect and someone, right now, is taking a leap of faith, and there are baby hedgehogs. Someone is holding hands for the first time. Someone is cooking their favorite meal. Someone is healing. Someone is petting a sleepy cat.

What I’m trying to say is, sometimes I have to remind myself, sometimes you need it too, that even though the world is big and scary it also is big and beautiful, it’s too big here for there not to be love and joy and goodness, it’s just statistically improbable. Things are changing, but some things never change, some things do change, for the better. Don’t let yourself fall so far into the dark that you can’t see the light, it’s out there, I promise, and it’s brighter than you think. Sometimes I have to remind myself. It’d be best you remember it too.