Everything

The world is such a beautiful place, but at the same time it's such a shitty place. I can't even decide which it's more of.

There are sunrises and sunsets every single day; there are beautiful, and intelligent people all around us. There is the smell of the ground after it rains, and the smell of crisp air when you walk outside at 6am. The way you feel after getting a great compliment, and how you almost feel better when you give a great compliment. How hard you laugh when it's 4am and you're sitting in a dark room with your bestfriends, and you're all so delusional that everything is hysterical. Hugging someone you love that you haven't seen in a really long time. The first kiss with someone you know you can grow to love. Coming out of your room on Christmas morning to the sound of "A Christmas Story" on TBS. Bowing after the first show of a new play, and knowing that everyone is cheering for all your hard work. Getting so overwhelmed by your passion for something, that you're almost on the brink of tears talking about it. Walking outside in the wee hours of the morning, and realizing how big the world really is. But even more than that, realizing how big the UNIVERSE is, and understanding how small all our your problems are. Making great memories, that will one day become great stories. These are the things that make life better.

However...
Seeing kids that have cancer, and understanding how completely unfair it is that their lives are being destroyed before they even begin. Watching the ASPCA commercials with the dogs that say "why do they keep beating me?" Thinking about the billions of people in this world who are literally starving to death, while you're eating a cheeseburger and fries. Hearing about millions of men and women being raped, killed, and beaten. Walking down the street, seeing all the homeless, and wondering how they got to that place. Knowing that one day, your mom and dad are going to die; and that you won't have their advice, and their love to guide you anymore. Getting your heartbroken for the very first time, and feeling like the world is crushing down on you. Feeling completely alone, even when you're in a group full of people. Rejection of all kinds. Natural disasters of any kind, and seeing that millions of people are dying from something that they had no control over. WAR. War over money, war over religion, war over natural resources, war over ignorance.

Comparing the two makes you really cherish every single moment you have, because somewhere, someone in the world is having their last.