Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday :)

Today I want to share with you a simple list.

It is certainly not an exhaustive list but I truly hope it will give you a little peace, a little joy, and a little love to brighten the day ahead.

You know, food for the soul and all of that.

A while ago an eleven-year-old girl asked me some deep questions: How do I stay so positive? why do I put that much effort in trying to make other people happy? Why do I create things? Why do I like people? Why do I always try to be nice to them when they are not nice to me? Why should we try to be better? And why, oh why do I think humanity is beautiful when all the evidence points to the contrary?

This is what you get when you try to debate with a girl who just entered 7th grade. She is a tough little lady, so very intelligent and so very willful. She will tell you that she’s not “just a girl” already painfully aware that her gender and her looks can and will probably be used as a weapon against her ambition.

She’s already facing bullies and already collecting the best grades. She’s a child that I love to the moon and back and she’s shedding her innocence faster than she should.

I do not wish for her to lose her faith in people, in humanity, along with it. So I’ve written her a little list, one she can learn by heart, like a sweet poem or a catchy song.

I keep having faith in humanity and people because:

• We have the universe inside of us
• We know how to laugh, we know how to think and we know how to love
• Just because some of us ignore those capacities does not mean all of us are bad
• We suffer and yet we still shine.
• We know how to capture starlight.
• We have colors, we come in different shades and we are all so incredibly beautiful because of it. We are all masterpieces.
• We help each other, we strive for each other and for ourselves.
• We love life, we love God, we are grateful.
• We all die and leave this planet eventually. But our love always remains.

To everyone who wants to keep faith in Humanity out there… This Shatzi is for you.

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Krewella “Human”

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