On 8/16/26

Daily Letter

Beautifully · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society

We've come so far. The future is so bright

For most of history, surgery was done without anesthesia.

Fruit was a luxury: people used to rent pineapples to show them off at parties.

Beautifully put, grateful, but onwards.

All the items in this room were once out of reach; some not yet invented, others too rare or costly for the vast majority of people. Today, most of us lucky enough to live with them walk past without a second thought.
It is to humanity’s credit that we remain restless in the midst of all of this progress. We continue to look forward, pushing the frontier further with new treatments, new tools, and new institutions that will help future generations in ways we can’t even picture yet.
But our lives today are a gallery of past generations’ heroic efforts to do the same. It serves us, and honors them, to recapture whenever possible the old sense of awe at these wonders that have long since become commonplace.

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