There is so much darkness in the world right now. So much anger. So much fear. So much division. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by it all. Easy to believe the whole world is falling apart.

But that’s not the whole story.

Even in the worst of times, good still shows up. Quietly. Humbly. Persistently.

There are people bringing meals to the sick. First responders who go back in, again and again. Teachers staying late. Neighbors lending tools and time. Strangers helping strangers.

There is music that lifts the soul. Art that stirs something deep within us. Mountains that hold the sunrise. Oceans that kiss the shore.

There is laughter that can’t be stopped. Love that refuses to quit. Small, steady acts of kindness that don’t make the headlines—but still shape the world.

Anne Frank saw it. Even as the world around her burned. Even in hiding. Even in fear. She wrote:

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”

What we focus on, we see. When we look for the good, we find it. When we honor it, it grows.

And when we become it—when we choose to be part of it—we make it real.

See the good.