All The Time

All the time we spend being strong for other people
could be spent being open and honest about how we feel.
All the time we spend worrying about other people's impressions of us
could be spent living authentically who we are.
All the time we spend being self-critical, questioning if we said or did the right thing
could be spent loving ourselves for who we are.

We spend so much of our lives wondering why life is the way it is:
disease, disability, war, slavery, evil...
We never spend that much time focused on light, on joy, on the goodness around us.
We ought to dream bigger - to look for light in the cracks in times of darkness.
Find time.
Make time:
for light, for hope, for love.

Imagine what our world would look like.