The Anthropocene Reviewed

I've been fitting a little of John Green's writing into my brain every day for the past couple of months with this essay collection. It never failed to leave me inspired, laughing, and a little in awe at this planet and the silly humans who inhabit it. I ended my reading with a book covered in highlights and sticky tabs. Green will never fail to impress me with the beautiful way he strings words together.

To fall in love with the world isn't to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry, to watch as the sycamore trees leaf out in June... We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.