I am not trying to be a downer. Yet awareness is important.
Hope can be a hinderance.
Not always. But be aware.
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact your work will be apparently worthless and achieve no result at all, if not perhaps at times bring about its opposite. As you get used to this, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness and the truth of the work itself.”
~ Thomas Merton
@corlin agree.. need to be firmly grounded in reality.
My opinions are not always popular but aimed at expressing things that require real change that is necessary for a fair society. They’re weighted opinions. It’s not necessary to agree on everything but it is necessary to discern what is true and what is not and weigh what is for the greater good. Not every day has to be cold, hard facts but when it’s been in your face since 2016 it shouldn’t be difficult to discern truth from fiction.
Noted:
Fact, indigenous peoples are still here. After so much. Remember this fact. Survive. Teach the young not to forget.
@Pippy @corlin yes.. my friend runs one, too.