The news is very scary.

Things are a mess and they have been for a long while for a lot of countries over there. Every single day people are suffering and every single month something happens that invites escalation. The difference between yesterday and today though, is that something happened that got our collective attention. The media wants you to be scared and fascinated all the same, because then you start paying attention, if only for the wrong reasons. It's how they make their money. The talking heads will talk, whether or not they get to you all depends on whether or not you listen, and the more you listen, the more power you give them.

It's really important to care about what goes on in the world. It's really important to feel fear and sorrow and anger and hope and relief. But what's just as important, if not more so, is that you care because you choose to, that you feel those feelings because they come from your heart, not because someone tells you to and you choose to feel those things unthinkingly.

Be scared. It's okay, because we all are. But also, be brave and be thoughtful and be a fountain of love, because those are what we all need to be if we truly want to make a better world.