So
many people feel that the world's sorrow, magnified by the echo chamber
of the media, must prevent us from being happy. They feel guilty if
they are not weighed down by the suffering they see endlessly repeated
in the media. But the media never magnifies the billions of moments of
beauty, the billions of little acts of kindness, that happen all over
the planet right now. They only see momentary shocks of violence, and
repeat them over and over, creating the illusion that the violence is
constant. Yet in between those momentary noises are vast territories of
silence, of gentleness and creativity. Now, more than ever before, it is
important to be happy on earth.
A flower photo by Kristy Thompson
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