Fwd: Let's talk about hope

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From: Will Watson <watsonwilliamb@gmail.com>
Date: November 25, 2009 6:01:27 PM CST

Subject: Let's talk about hope

Quotes from the road and geez magazine.

Is it naive?

Does it lead us to violent ideologies?

Is it the "heart of change" or a "psychological crutch" of the privileged?

"if we put all our eggs in the basket of hope, will we still be able to lament, console, confess, redeem, love, and believe?"

"for those in tune with the spirit, who open their ears within ears, hope will be as familiar as the firmament. That we can conceive of something grand, that as mortals we have perceived that which we feebly call divine--not out of this world, but the very essence of this world--reveals an opportunity to participate in something larger, fuller, prior to ourselves, worlds, histories, and futures."



"I want to be with you.

You can't.

Please.

You can't. You have to carry the fire.

I don't know how to.

Yes you do.

Is it real? The fire?

Yes.

Where is it? I don't know where it is.

Yes you do. It's inside you. It was always there. I can see it."


Realism or idealism. They seem so mutually exclusive, and yet I don't want them to be. The idealists lose touch with reality and become inconsequential, lost in their hope of other worlds. But the realists, become complacent because nothing we do will ever change anything. I'll give my life fighting for freedom, love and beauty and all the things in which I believe, but it won't change anything. Me and/or all the other fighters. But our world needs both.

And either way, the fire says I keep burning.

soon

"what is love? commitment to another person's mess. it's being willing to follow another person into the nastiest darkest places in their heart and risk them hating you for having followed them, and staying. for the mess, not despite it."

andrew wrote that, and as hard as it is, i completely agree.