“It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.”
Bruce Springsteen
In a world full of hate, violence, poverty, depression, hopelessness… it can be hard, even guilt-inducing, to feel the opposite.
I know I’ve had the thought run through my mind: “How can I feel joy when there are so many awful things happening in the world?”
But you know what? …It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.
To be clear, this is not to say that we should bury our heads in the sand and ignore the hate, violence, poverty, depression, and hopelessness of the world.
…It’s simply to say, sometimes the absolute best thing we can do for the world is find our joy and spread that into the world as an anecdotal, proactive response rather than becoming just another passive, infected part of the ever expanding, depressing problem.
P.s. There is a ton happening in the world that is joy-inducing, too.