Good morning. Welcome to Your World Within Daily. Today I'm going to share a speech I wrote about the current moment, the will to overcome, and the same things we walk right by.

They become so intertwined in the status quo

that ultimately it becomes impossible

to tell them apart from our day to day.

That is impossible until things change.

Because as it turns out, that thing we call life, it has a say.

There's a saying you never really know what you have until it's gone.

Sometimes it takes the most abrasive of reminders, the harshest of times,

to help us recapture that perspective.

To lift us up and show us what we had previously failed to see.

And while our darkest moments test our strength, they push our boundaries, even transform our reality,

they can also be the bridge that leads us exactly where we need to be.

They remind us that sometimes it's not about how we spend our time, but who we spend it with.

The quiet brings clarity,

and the world can spin so fast that we forget to think about our place within it.

It reminds us how humanity is bigger than the sum of its parts, and it takes just as much energy

to build up as it does to tear down.

It reminds us that no matter where we live, what we speak, or who we pray to, we're not so different after all.

It reminds us that there is so much more good in this world than evil, so much more love than hate,

and so much promise for tomorrow.

Someday we'll look back on this moment with the lessons we've learned, the hardships we've faced, and we will be reminded of the miracle that is the human spirit, unwavering in its resolve, unbreakable at its foundation,

stronger than we could ever comprehend.

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