I'm a Planet

Day 90: "He Who Saves a Single Life It Is as If He Saved an Entire World"

I'm still a teenager. I've been a teenager for a few years now and if I know anything, I can tell you the following: you will meet someone in your life (if you haven't already) who hates himself or his life to an extreme. He is depressed. He feels alone, unwanted, used, paranoid. Things no one wants to feel. He comes to you to vent. You need to talk back. You don't know if something you say can change his mind. But if you could save his life, wouldn't you?

I've been in this position more than I'd like to admit, I've been the one calming my friends down, reminding them they are loved and that they at least have me to vent to. I tell them I'd miss them if they were gone, I tell them they've impacted me. None of these things are false.

I started helping people who felt this way before I'd heard this quote from Sanhedrin, but as soon as I heard it, I felt as if I'd done a million things right in my life. Please, please save our world. Our world houses billions of what Judaism calls worlds. We ourselves are worlds: we have peaks and valleys, rain and sunshine, we have continents and oceans all within us. We should remember to save the beauty that is the world of someone else.