Appreciating Company

[Beautiful Future - XIX]

I woke up this morning with gratitude for the way my friends see the future. I get a sense that their perspectives—seeing the world with empathetic eyes, asking hard questions about our own limitations, insisting on an audacious hope, and voting for the kind of person I want to become—are preparing me for the road ahead. A road that is built foot by foot, but one that will indeed be beautiful.

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well” (Voltaire).

Despite the naysayers, regardless of so-called popular opinion, the future will be beautiful because the friends we hold see it that way. Their perspectives inspire us, stir us, shape us.

The beautiful future begins, for me, with an appreciation for them.

Your company matters.
To you. And to the future.