It’s easy to shut off the news, avoid the negative, avert our eyes what we don’t want to see in the name of staying positive, fueling our creativity, and maintaining our own mental health.

Garbage in garbage out, after all. Our inputs determine our outputs.

But negative inputs aren’t inherently garbage inputs.

Sometimes facing the darkness, the negative and the painful is essential to increasing our empathy. And our work, but more importantly our relationships with others and the world can only improve by adding more empathy.

It benefits us to learn about and recognize the experiences of people not like us.

It benefits us to examine the role we and our work have played in perpetuating unjust systems.

It benefits us to delve into the places in ourselves, and the world we’d rather not delve into and emerge more understanding, compassionate, and prepared to do more than we’ve previously known how.

And it benefits us, and everyone, to take what we’ve learned by venturing into the darkness and creating more empathetic, meaningful, work.

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