My grandmother was taken off of her ventilator last night. I wasn't informed until afterward. I'm not upset because this is so often the case with my father. I'm not asking for pity, or condolences. I made my peace with her passing more than a week ago. I'm asking you to do something. Nothing hard, or inconvenient.
Just for today, please look outside and acknowledge the beauty that surrounds you. Don't worry about the fact that you have tons of homework and reading to do. Leave the concerns over relationships and drama behind you, if only for a moment. Just watch, look for the symmetry and the beauty. See the world for what it is. Amazing, inspiring, complex, and incredible.
There are so many horrific things going on in the world, it's true. But for some reason when I see the trees and the clouds and the sky and the birds, and the grass, and the animals, it's so easy to see what the earth was and could be. It's so easy to feel connected and a part of something. If you know what to look for.
If you know how to see.
God, there is so much to see.
Appreciate how lucky you are to be alive, and breathing.
Know that it could be much worse, and accept that just to be alive is a beautiful thing.
Please. Just for today.