it's okay to stay alive for the small things. stay alive because you want to listen to your favorite song. stay alive so you can experience your favorite holiday. stay alive so you can give and receive hugs. those smalls things aren't small if they keep you alive.

western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.