It can be so easy to get lost in the bad. Horrible things are always happening; we are near powerless to stop most of them, and it can so easily make us feel hopeless. Sometimes it is just good to take a step back to look around us with fresh perspective. The pale blue dot image was taken on Valentine's Day 1990. In the 30 years that have followed we have learned more. Loved more. Laughed more. Cried more. Still, that pale blue dot spinning around a medium yellow sun would look the same today as then. It would look the same if we all gave up hatred, and violence and lived our best selves. It would look the same if we went extinct.
This Valentine's Day, instead of flowers and chocolates, wouldn't it be nice if we could just feel love for all the other people with whom we share this tiny speck of dust in a vast universe.
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