Things you’re allowed to feel even though everything is on fire right now:
❤️ Gratitude for all you have
🧘🏽♂️ Relief when you put down your phone
🌞 Optimism about the future
🌱 A need to rest & heal quietly
💙 Empathy for all people, even those who have a lot of work to do
If you take a brick of dung, and multiply it a million times, you have a wall of dung. If you take a brick of gold, and multiply it a million times, you have a wall of gold. Do not start from anger. Start from love.
“What is sinister is that the conscious enemies of liberty are those to whom liberty ought to mean most. They do not see that any attack on intellectual liberty, and on the concept of objective truth, threatens in the long run every department of thought.” – George Orwell
Many of us feel anger and frustration. But we cannot give in to those emotions. A new system born of rage and retribution will be no better than the old. We must turn to our better angels. To seek empathy. Compassion. Forgiveness. Only then will things change for the better.
I believe in democracy. I believe in a free press. I believe in open debate. I love it when my newspaper prints pieces I disagree with. It causes me to think.