# Today

*We're pondering today in today's issue of your weekly poetry shot*

By [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct) · 2025-10-10

poetry, today, life

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> There will be births  
> today. And deaths.  
> Some will (make) love,  
> some will lose all.  
> And for some  
> today's just another day.

Fifteen years ago, I was supposed to run a 10K. A 10K on 10-10-10. For charity. We were supporting an organisation that helped girls in India get an education. But, not long before that, I tore my ACL. It was repaired, and I was recovering. I just had not recovered enough to run a 10K. So, I used my bike and biked the 10 kilometers. In Riga, the capital of Latvia, where I then lived. And I recorded my ride on video. Not really something that many people did back then. On that day, however, people all over the world filmed a bit of their day to participate in the [One Day On Earth](https://www.onedayonearth.org/) project.

Despite all the noise of content created on social media, this still is a beautiful idea. Not just random dopamine fixes in your feed, but a tapestry of human stories. Stories people live on that single day on that singular planet.

And that inspired the poem above.

_In the header image, you see a monument in Riga, that was my start and finish for the 10K charity ride._

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### Poésie de la vie

Watch the trailer of the movie One Day On Earth, to see what happened on 10 October 2010:

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIvJBgi-1E)

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*Originally published on [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/today)*