I was sitting in a cafe miserable, having just wasted $20 on transportation going between two different government offices and having achieved absolutely nothing at about 10 am this morning, when a very small child, a toddler, looked around the corner from behind the chair up at me with a tentative look on her face and began the smallest of smiles. It was as if she was asking without any words whatsoever whether I would smile back at her, which of course, I couldn’t help but do.

I began to smile, the little child began to smile broadly, and then I realized that this is how tiny human beings survive, and perhaps how the human race survives. Small children with their curiosity can bring out the best in us. And that means maybe there really is some hope for the human race after all. What do you think?
– Shira Destinie Jones

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