Kathryn Jean Lopez on Loving One Another as the Way to Go

"It's 1 a.m., and there’s a helicopter hovering overhead. Seems typical for New York City these days.

"I was part of the crowd that fled New York for a bit during this pandemic year. So maybe I'm part of the problem. Upon my return, some days, I feel like all I see is human misery. That obviously isn't the whole story, but consider a few scenes. Healthy-looking, well-dressed, good-looking men in their 30s searching through the overflowing trash cans on the streets - all with a daze to their faces. I assume opioids. One that I watched picked up a Starbucks iced coffee or latte, or some such - someone had left a quarter of the cup unconsumed - and drank it during a pandemic as if it were his own and as if it wasn't just in the garbage. Grown men are passed out on the streets in the middle of the day. Screaming men insist on money."

In a recent commentary, nationally syndicated columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez, senior fellow at the National Review Institute and editor-at-large at National Review, reflected on how we do not know when our lives will end and on the importance of living them in love.

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