awaken

I for one, am someone who cant escape the idea that the lives of strangers don't count as much.
That changed today.

As I sat in the hall and watched the slides of photos pass along with the beats of the song, those smiles... I couldn't shake them off.
For the first time since I've met these scholars... I felt for the first time that I interacted with humans, real, compelling, precious humans.

A feeling welled up in my heart. These smiles, they are precious. The moment I saw them I felt their worth.
Happiness.. comes perhaps once too often. They became as worthless a Gold in a golden world.
But at that moment, with its value acutely felt, I uttered a silent prayer.

My God, how great you are.
Who else but a God of love writes these beautiful stories and portray them on beautiful faces.
Who writes the smiles in all the places

I can feel with what love you impute value to us, that you should be concerned about the smiles we live and forget.

It's crazy. I'm mind blown. I stand in awe and I hope it sticks and changes me.