You

Good morning. You made it. One more day.

You're one day further from a history that haunts you. One day wiser from the mistakes of the past. One day further healed from the hurts that follow you. One day closer to that tomorrow you seek.

The road is not easy. With aching feet and tired eyes you struggle to maintain the path you set for yourself.

It might keep you up each night thinking about it. It may daunt you each morning as you wake to the new day's struggle.

These are hard times. Uncertain times.

You're going to question the world around you. You're going to question your choices. Your options. Yourself.

One thing you cannot question is your worth.

Regardless of the knocks and turns of this world and this life, you hold immeasurable value. There are people in your life who's day you brighten, who's world you improve, who's spirits you lift.

You may never even know the ways you improve the world around you. You might bake a delicious cake. Sing a song. Help someone take out their trash. Fix a car. Listen to a problem sincerely.

They may sound trivial alone, but together they add up to an immense good.

If everyone in this world did one small thing to make someone else's day better, every day, think of the immense tidal wave of good that could be accomplished.

And we do. In so many smalls ways. In so many grand ways we may never understand.

You may be tired and hurting right now. You may be planning a new life goal, trying to understand a calamity that befell you, or struggling with a pain that you try your best to hide from the world. But never question your contribution to the greater good.

Do good work. Be good to the people around you. You are contributing to this world in a way that only you can, and without you that void will never be filled again.

I may not even know you. I may not know the struggle you are going through right at this moment. But I want you to know that I love you. In this moment, while you read these words, we are connected. Even if you read them long after I am gone. We are connected. Together we can keep making this world a better place.

You are worth while. You bring a goodness to this world that can never be replaced, and I beg you to keep sharing that with this world, no matter how hard it gets. Because you have helped change someone else's life for the better, as so many have improved mine in ways they may never fully comprehend. In ways they may not even remember.

Keep struggling. Keep trying. Keep waking up to each new day, with all its trials and pitfalls, and keep making the world a better place as only you can. And smile with this knowledge and power.

You can do it. You already have.