The holidays are here and with the holidays come a lot of amazing things. Families and friends come together, people all over the world selflessly (and sometimes selfishly) give to others, children from all different backgrounds get presents that will be obsolete by the next holiday season, and we generally just get along. It really is a wonderful thing to have a time to rest and be together with the people you love. But I know there's also a multitude of people that hate the holidays. I'm talking about the people who have no family or friends that they can see or people who feel more alone with their family than they do by themselves. For a lot of people the holidays can be some of the toughest times of the year where all you have to do is sit around and think about all of the bad things in the world. The type of people that get stuck in slumps thinking about how alone they feel, or how many tragedies are still happening in the world today, or how no one got them any socks this year even though that's all they really asked for like every single year in the past but for some reason no one ever takes them seriously when yes really all they want is like three pairs of nice new socks to put on for once. This is for everyone, but those people especially.

You are a miracle. Yes that sounds stupid. Yes that's a cliche. That doesn't make it any less true. You are literally one of the most unique things ever known to have existed. You literally live on a paradise of life in a solar system in a galaxy in a universe that seems to not really care one way or the other what happens to you. You are alive anyway. You are alive because someone somewhere does care about you. You ae alive because generations of your ancestors going back millions of years fought and struggled and worked and lost and won and murdered and stole and learned and loved to make sure that you would have a better life than theirs. You are alive because a lot of people decided to wake up every single day and care. It's very easy to forget that.

You are a miracle simply for being here. It wasn't easy to get here and it won't be easy moving forward, but that love is still there. That drive for something better for the people you love is still there. Before there was language or architecture or bipedal organisms walking the Earth their were two organisms that found each other in time and space that came together and created something they knew was important enough to protect. Two organisms knew that what they made something important enough to nurture and care for until it could make something of its own. Yes there is a lot of evil in this world and people do a lot of bad things for seemingly no reason. But even those people have a reason. I almost guarantee it started with love.

So this holiday season if you're feeling especially sad or alone just remember that someone out there loves you and believes in you even if you don't believe them.

You are a miracle.

There has never been and there never will be anything exactly like you.