Why I High-Fived a Squirrel This Morning

So, there I was, walking to get the mail,

and this squirrel just NAILED a jump between two trees.

I'm talking Olympic level athleticism here.

And I actually stopped and applauded.

The squirrel looked at me like I was insane.

Fair.

But here's the thing, that squirrel is LIVING.

That tree is TREE-ING with everything it's got.

The sun came up this morning without anyone asking it to,

just showed up for work like the absolute professional it is.

My neighbor's kid learned to ride a bike yesterday.

Fell down seven times.

Got up eight times.

Math has never been more beautiful.

I burned my toast this morning and you know what?

The smoke alarm works PERFECTLY.

I have a smoke alarm!

I have toast!

I have a toaster that's trying its very best!

Some guy at the grocery store let me go ahead of him in line

because I only had three items.

Three items! In the best of all possible worlds!

Where grocery stores exist! And strangers are kind!

My friend told me her tomato plant finally grew a tomato.

ONE tomato.

She sent me four pictures of it.

I looked at all four pictures.

That tomato is THRIVING.

Do you understand how many things had to go right

for you to be reading this?

Billions of years of cosmic fine tuning,

your parents meeting at exactly the right moment,

you learning to read,

someone inventing paper or screens or whatever you're looking at.

It's BONKERS.

It's wonderful.

It's exactly as it should be.

I'm not being sarcastic.

I'm not winking at the camera.

I genuinely think the universe woke up today

and decided to be SPECTACULAR,

and it succeeded,

and I got to be here for it,

and so did you,

and so did that squirrel.

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