"Sometimes I just want it to stop. Talk of COVID, looting, brutality.
I lose my way.
I become convinced that this "new normal" is real life.
Then I meet an 87-year-old who talks of living through polio, diphtheria, Vietnam protests and yet is still enchanted with life.
He seemed surprised when I said that 2020 must be especially challenging for him. "No," he said slowly, looking me straight in the eyes. "l learned a long time ago to not see the world through the printed headlines, I see the world through the people that surround me.
I see the world with the realization that we love big. Therefore, I just choose to write my own headlines:

Story by Andy Stanley
Thank you to Senpai Brands
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