One Day

One thing has always been consistent.
Love doesn't fail.
How many times have I seen acts that make me question humanity?
How many times have I gone a whole day and seen anger, hatred, jealousy, and frustration in the people I see?
And how many of those times have I, just when I am about to say "That's it. Humanity sucks, we are the worst. We are monsters," and love prevails. One act of kindness on a rainy, cold day. It can make up for 500 days of anger, wrath, evil.
I notice these things, every day, walking on the street.
This past week, I have seen a guy speed past another driver in anger, a guy complain about an annoying classmate. I have seen a group of freshman making fun of a guy that is different in the courtyard. I turn on the news, and we are constantly arguing over politics, over nuclear weapons, over endless things. There are constantly reports of shootings in schools, violence against women, rape, you name it.
Human beings have an innate ability to really suck.
But the same ability, the same capacity to hate, to kill, rape, destroy, they use that ability to love.
Its all in our hands.
We are such amazing creatures because in an instant, we have the choice to break down, catabolize, destroy each other.
Or
We can build each other up, we can love, we can invest in each other and in our happiness. Not my happiness; our happiness.
We are all together; we are all a team.
A team does not function without cohesion and mutual respect for one another.
Love is the only thing that keeps me, keeps us going.
500 days of hatred, yet only one day of love makes the world turn; it makes it all worth living.