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Living Among Billions

"Even on the worst of days, goodness will always, always find you."

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Living Among Billions
Chad Bird

We live on this incredibly diverse blue and green planet that circles around a ball of fire that is our sun, and has a moon that has the ability to move the sea.

This alone is unfathomable.

Our planet sustains over 7 billion people.

Each and every person is unique and unlike anyone else. Everybody is on different paths in their life and is undergoing different feelings, emotions, and life experiences.

Someone today, as you're reading this, was born.

They have their entire lives ahead of them and have yet to experience all the goodness, as well as hurt, that this world has to offer.

Someone today, as you're reading this, has just passed away.

They hopefully lived everyday to their fullest and got as much out of their life as humanly possible.

Someone today, as you're reading this, fell in love.

Butterflies are currently forming in their stomach and they look at their significant other wondering how a world before meeting them could have ever even existed.

Someone today, as you're reading this, overcame a tragedy that could have killed them.

Whether it was dealing with a death in the family, battling an illness, or cheating death, they overcame it.

Someone today, as you're reading this, just finished saying "I do" to the love of their life.

With extraordinary joy, happy newlyweds look into each others eyes with the promise of forever on their lips.

Someone today, as you're reading this, made their family proud.

Maybe it was a son or daughter finishing college or quitting a bad habit such as smoking. Whatever it was, a family is exuding in emotions of delight and contentment.

Someone today, as you're reading this, has finally let go.

They have let go of a toxic person in their life, or maybe of the past, or simply their regrets.

Someone today, as you're reading this, has healed.

The person has finally moved on from a past romantic interest, or maybe it was a knee surgery they have recovered from and are able to walk again.

7 billion people in this world and some of us have just finished up with the best day of our lives.

Today may have been one of the very worst days for you, but take solace and celebrate the simple fact that, while today wasn't your best day, I assure you that its on the way!

The world is big and vast and incredibly diverse, but even on those "worst days", goodness will always, always find you.

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