There is one thing more desolate than hopelessness. It’s the absence of expectations.
Hope only hurts when we still expect things to turn out differently, or still want it to be more.
When we give up hope, and we surrender our expectations, we’re left with nothing but the present moment.
The past fades as a hallucination often does.
The future ceases to exist.
And all we have is a choice to do something with the moment we’re in.
But what is there to do with it if hope and expectations have both left?
With no bitterness to create anger, and no love to create hope, what value does the present moment hold?
I believe that it is in such moments that we face the brutality or the beauty of our true nature.
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The present moment
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Farewell, it wasn’t fun
Goodbye to a year that has defined new depths of beauty and pain, and left its mark somewhere adrift between the two, leaving an ambivalence of hope and hopelessness, where once there was certainty.
Nothing changes after midnight tonight. But the token of 2021 may give some hope, while the rest brace themselves for a continuation of the struggles of a year that most would want to forget, but everyone will always remember.
Including the heartless who believe that being right about the pandemic is more important than being compassionate about the suffering that it continues to cause.
We have a long way to climb to get ourselves out of this cess pool of humanity that we find ourselves in.
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