Every morning, the world arrives as it is.
Not polished. Not resolved.
A mix of light and shadow. Old residue and new possibilities.
And before the day asks anything of you, there’s already a choice to be made:
whether you will meet it with resistance or with care.
This isn’t about loving a perfect world.
That kind of love collapses the moment reality intrudes.
Perfection turns life into a constant audit — what’s missing, what’s broken, what should have been different. It trains the eye to subtract. Over time, subtraction hardens into exile.
Nor is this a call to romanticise suffering. There are conditions no one should be asked to accept — injustice, domination, and deprivation. Love requires dignity. Without that foundation, “acceptance” becomes a quiet cruelty.
The real work lives in the middle ground.
To love the world you wake up in is to tend a garden in soil you didn’t choose. You don’t deny the stones. You don’t wait for ideal conditions. You kneel anyway. You move what can be moved. You plant around what cannot.
The result will never resemble the catalogue image.
But it will be alive. And it will be yours.
This daily love is attention. It’s the willingness to hold complexity without numbing out — to notice the troubling headline and still hear laughter in the next room. To see cracks in the pavement and recognise the courage of whatever grows through them.
Loving the world doesn’t mean declaring it finished.
It means deciding it’s worth engaging with.
So start simply.
Be grateful for the un-owed things: breath, heartbeat, another morning. Accept imperfection as a texture rather than failure. Then, locate your sphere of influence — however small — and tend it.
Mend one thing.
Listen fully to one person.
Say one sentence that’s true.
Loving the world does not require its perfection.
It requires your presence.
Wake up. Let the imperfect light spill across the floor. Feel the weight of reality — and your agency within it. And choose, again, to meet this patchwork, struggling, magnificent world with courage and care.
