fromjunia

Everything you do matters. There is not a breath you take which doesn’t make the world a better place. Every act of creativity, every kindness you do, every drop of compassion you feel fixes a shattered world, piece by piece. Humans are beautiful beings remarkably capable of mending what’s broken in a way that makes it better than it was before.

Have you ever looked at a starry sky and marveled at the specks of light unimaginably far away? Have you ever been dazzled by skyline city lights? Have you ever walked among the trees and listened to birdsong? Have you ever been awed by the capacity to build skyscrapers and organize cities? You introduced feeling to a universe that wouldn’t feel that without you.

Carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen don’t feel, but you do. Carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen can’t appreciate themselves or each other, but humanity produced chemists who dedicate their lives to doing so. Humanity produced physicists who study the behavior of the gasses that these elements compose. Humanity produced children awed by elementary science experiments, demonstrating the foundations of existence. Humanity introduces so much good.

We strive, and struggle, and reach great heights, and fix problems, and astound ourselves with what we achieve.

It is unfortunate, then, that we will lose this all. Everyone we love and everyone who loves them will die. Every ripple we make will become irretrievably subsumed in the sea of consequences we fill. Entropy will destroy everything we build and the coldness of the universe will overcome every degree of warmth we generate. It is sad because what we’ve done and made matters. It is a tragedy.

Knowing tragedy is always impending doesn’t change the goodness of what we do. It means we’re on the clock. We have limited time to enjoy life and be there for each other. The situation is urgent. The fire is coming and it will consume everything; love now and love deeply.

You lose in the end, so win now, while you still can.