Carl Sagan said: “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

When life, when the world feels like a never-ending emergency, often just making it through the day can be a struggle. Collecting scars. Physical and psychological reminders of what we’ve been through, of who and what we’ve lost.

Maybe those scars can do more than memorialize past traumas, maybe they’re also a testament to the fact that we’re still here, survivors
, barely.