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HOPE |
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You don't look
at it as a feeling state; you look at it as an ethical
obligation. You look at it as a thing that you generate in
yourself by recognizing that despair is a luxury. Not for
everyone. Some people are really burdened by life, either
because of chemicals in their brains or terrible personal
circumstances or social circumstances that make despair
inescapable. But most people in this country aren't. And since
most of us aren't, we have an ethical obligation to look for
hope and find it. It isn't easy, but that doesn't mean it
isn't there. In fact, if it were easy, it would be less
valuable. It's like the Jewish search for God. One of the
Talmudic ideas for why it's so hard is that you create its
value by the difficulty of the search. We all do it. That's
what our struggle is. We wouldn't get out of bed otherwise. |