I was talking to my old friend Lisa today about life, religion, discrimination and … .stuff! A light-hearted conversation – right. She said something about the fact that she got out of bed every day and that was a good thing which reminded me of something that came to me yesterday.
We are all optimists – even the pessimists. Consider for a moment how much crap goes on in the world every day. Hurricanes, droughts, floods, natural disasters galore. Forget that! How about the travesties? - Apartheid, hunger, poverty, the unbelievably poor conditions in which so much of the world lives.
In America, we are worried about finances, loss of jobs. How will we tell our kids that we can’t get them much for Christmas? How will we make our bills? What if we lose our house? our job? People get sick. So many people have cancer one wonders what the heck we are doing to create that.
It’s hard. It’s fucking hard to get up every day and brush your teeth and go to work, assuming you have a job, to do all the things great and small that are required of us. But …. We do it. Just about all of us do it.
We get up! We get moving. We keep moving until that blessed time when we return home, the luckiest of us to our families, and we breath a sigh of relief, pet the dog, kiss the kids, read a book, watch the TV … hit the hay! Sleep .. if we can and ….
Do it all over again the next morning. We do the impossible every day – even the most pessimistic among us.
As Dory (from “Finding Nemo” – a film to live by) would say, “Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming”.