While you may end up as dust, you don’t need to leave your family in it.

Pain alchemizes us. And I’m not here to say that you are beautiful now because you have been hurt. I will never tell you that your story is richer now, now that you have experienced trauma. I will just tell you that you are. You are. You are here, and you exist.

It is hard, given the state of the world, not to think of shortages. It is so hard to exist day-to-day without a mindset of scarcity. That is valid. The fear is understandable. I feel it, we all feel it, we can feel it together.

A world that has stopped in fear is not necessarily a world that has stopped to breathe, love, enjoy, and support each other. But it can become one.