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This World Really Isn't All THAT Terrible...

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This World Really Isn't All THAT Terrible...

In the midst of all of the horrible events over the last few months, I think it's important that we take a moment to stop and realize the good we do have in this world.

I'm sick of hearing about people killing each other, whether it's white-on-white, black-on-black, cop-on-anyone or anyone-on-cop. I’m sick of hearing about the genocide of our sisters and brothers for being gay, Christian, Muslim, black, white, etc. And you know why these things keep happening? Because the media tends to put the spotlight on terrible tragedies and criminal acts.

Why don't we, collectively, as a population, start taking a moment everyday to count our blessings? To think about the good in the world?

For example, yes there's some evil in this world, but then I think about the young man who saved me from being sexually assaulted for a second time at a party a few years ago. Some guy who I didn't even know stepped in on a potentially dangerous situation and saved me a lot of trauma. His reasoning? Because he would want someone to do the same for his sister, mother, or friend.

I think about the inmates in a Texas jail who saved their warden from dying from a heart attack last week.

I think about a police officer from my hometown who rather than arresting a woman who was caught stealing food for her children, decided to get a bunch of his police officer friends together and they brought the woman enough food to feed her family for a while.

Now you’re probably thinking, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get the point,” but I promise, once you stop to smell the flowers, the world will seem like it’s not such a bad place.

With all the sadness that has been projected to all of us in the media recently, it really has impacted everyone, everywhere. Take away from this that you never know when your last day will be, and you’ll never know which “goodbye” is going to be the last one until it’s too late. Tell your loved ones that you love them. Go out of your way to make a random act of kindness.

As someone who has fought with the demons of depression, anxiety, and sexual assault, I would have never been able to put myself back together if I wouldn’t have realized that life really isn’t that bad.


A wise man named Daniel Phuong once told me to “Live powerfully, authentically, and unapologetically.” These are words that I live by everyday. And why wouldn’t you? You’ve only got so much time on this earth, and there’s no reason not to.
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