June 13, 2026- Glad to be a live

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

~Hafez

We can complain about our algorithm all we want, but we created it. We chose to pause on those political posts that infuriated us. We zoomed in on the picture that repulsed us. If we are the rare few who shy away from social media, we still chose the things we read and watched and the voices we opted to listen to. So much of our daily feed of information is self-selected.

Is our feed making us glad we are alive? What sights and sounds could we choose to feel that way more frequently? What can we try to avoid to limit the noise that breaks our peace? We can’t bury our heads in the sand and pretend there is no negativity in the universe, but we don’t have to listen to every kidnapping or murder story that leads the nightly news, finish every terrible book we start, let every conversation fully run its course, or even clean our plate. We can choose to move away from the things that don’t bring us joy, and toward the things that do.

We are not stuck in the life we’ve created for ourselves. Some things are forever, other things are exceptionally difficult to change, but most of the aspects of our lives are there because we chose to have it that way, and a simple choice would change them. Choose the things that make you glad to be alive.