Chances are if you’re reading this, life is pretty good. While staying in Africa last year I often wrote about gratitude. There is so much to be thankful for. Without doing a full review on my current book, Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker, I can safely say it’s influenced me greatly. We have it pretty good—no matter where we are. Referenced in the book, I can’t help but appreciate Barack Obama’s quote: “If you had to choose a moment in time to be born, any time in human history, and you didn’t know ahead of time what nationality you were or what gender or what your economic status might be, you’d choose today.” It couldn’t be more true. We are suffering globally, but we are also beating this. We need to unite and now focus on the suspected next hotspots, Africa and Latin America, but still… we are conquering this disease. The world’s fastest ever vaccine will be ready, hopefully, by early 2021. There are thousands of people working across the globe to make that happen. My appreciation brings me back full circle to another perceptive quote: “what a time to be alive.” Keep surviving, keep living, keep thriving. We control our fate.