"If You Look for the Helpers, You'll Know That There's Hope"

There are things that happen in this world that we sometimes just don't understand. The attacks on 9/11. The tragedy at Newtown. The recent bombings at the Boston Marathon. Lives are lost, questions go unanswered, and it's easy to lose faith in humanity when such heart-breaking acts of violence continue to occur.

As we seek to make sense of what we're seeing on the news, many have referred to Mr. Rogers' sage advice to "look for the helpers" in times of tragedies. In his 1999 Archive interview, the man who taught us to embrace the world of make-believe also taught us how to hold on to hope when bad things happen in the real world:

Look for the helpers, everyone. Stay safe.

- Adrienne Faillace