We've got it rough.
So did lots of honest people throughout history, in the plagues, in the Inquisition, in the Civil War, in the world wars, when we came damn near close to blowing up human civilization when I was 8 years old.
We can but fight on, or give up. I'm for fighting on with a smile, and assuming we'll eventually get the breaks.
As Shakespeare said, the night is long that never finds the day.
Michael Fraley wrot:
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of a Thomas Merton quote that I read over twenty years ago, probably in his book "No Man is an Island." He says that we are not just the sum total of everything bad that people have done to us -- we are also the sum of all of the good that has been invested in us. As a melancholy personality, I often have to remind myself that life is more than pain and loss -- people from a thousand different directions, often unknown, have planted good seeds in our patch of ground, and we can choose to allow those to take root and grow, to be a garden.