In light of recent events, I think that it’s important to remember that not everything is saturated with hatred. People continue to devote their lives to spreading love and acceptance and it shows, if you take the time to look.

You can see the tragedies plastered on the TV and newspapers easily, but it’s not as easy to spot acts of kindness.

I was too young to fully understand 9/11, but when Paris was attacked, I panicked. I had friends nearby. My eyes were glued to the news and I couldn’t imagine the world returning to normal again. Luckily, everyone who I knew was safe, but everyone was rattled and terrified. However, so many other people weren’t safe.

After the Orlando shooting, I grew more depressed than anxious. Once I discovered that my family in the area was accounted for, I tried to ignore the fact that yet another dreadful thing had occurred. I didn’t want to lessen its impact or diminish the value of the victims, but I also didn’t want to face more death.

It's scary to see that terrible things happen. There’s no sugar-coating a body count or the emotional trauma that accompanies horrific events, but there’s something admirable in the aftermath of such happenings.

I saw a post once that I liked about awful occurrences. The quote said, "When I was a boy and would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"

Despite everything that happened, I saw those people. I saw the people in and out of uniforms who risked their lives to make sure that others got to safety and I saw videos of crowds of people singing their national anthems so boldly and carelessly that they all melted into one chorus that screamed out “love.”

I think that's beautiful. It almost makes me laugh, because people's intentions were to terrify people who weren’t like them during those attacks, but they only managed to unite them.

This doesn’t only happen when disaster strikes, though.

People often help others in profound and meaningful ways.

They relinquish pride for others.

They circumvent differences.

They make others smile.

We have to remember that there’s always some love left in the world.

As Dumbledore said, “Love can be found even in the darkest of places if one only remembers to turn on the light.”