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I know that at age 19 I certainly haven’t figured out all the secrets of the world, and it’s likely that I’ll change my mind, and I hope I can, but for now, I think the world is more terrible than good. Now, and certainly historically. The weight of everyone who’s ever been tortured or killed or suffered weighs me down every day, and I know happiness is beautiful, but there can’t ever be enough of it to balance it out. Like Maggie Smith said, “the world is at least 50% terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate,” and she’s right. Still I know that I must persevere because I want so deeply to make this place better. However I’ve ended up here, I only want everyone to be happy.

If I were given a choice to erase it all, to erase everything on Earth, human and animal, from ever existing, I don’t know if I wouldn’t. The weight of all the pain this world has inflicted, not to me, but to everyone, is too much.

Even if the world is more bad than good, I still think we can choose hope and love.

⊹ ۫ ࣭ ✧ the pain of facing that truth