VIII

Any one can’t do everything, but everyone can do anything.

The time to physically come together has past, but we will meet again. That time will come again.

There will be a day where our faces light up as our best friend or a long-lost sibling sits down on a park bench, next to us. There will be a time where pixels, lighting up a screen, will be replaced by genuine smiles, illuminating our lives once more.

There will be a day when restaurants will open, parades will go on, and schools will resume.

These times will come again.

But for now, I encourage you to take a chance. When this is all over, you and I will be different. The human race will not come out of this the same. That’s guaranteed.

But we can guarantee to ourselves how we want to come out of this. You can guarantee how you want to come out of this.

Let’s not allow political borders and climates, the fact that I am a man or you are a woman, or the difference in my age and yours divide us any longer.

I am a human being. And you are a human being.
And together, we are strong.

Let’s refuse to let difference remain the excuse.

As some of those on the frontlines are lost to the virus, let’s make sure they don’t die in vain. Let’s make the world one they would be proud to have been a part of.

As some of us seek to venture beyond the Earth, questing for promises of habitability in space, let’s allow them to look back, proud of our blue marble and us on it.

Let’s be the difference.