Inspiration:
One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found – and it is found in terrible places… For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. –James Baldwin
“Bumper Sticker Hope”
Someday this life for all of us will be completely over, so why not hope beyond reason, beyond the logical, beyond the chains of history? I would have never been able to lose over 150 lbs. (without surgery) and keep it off for ten years (and counting) without the ability to choose hope every day over despair at the state I had allowed my body to degenerate into. Making hope possible rather than despair convincing seems to be a better choice for me…I spent a lot of early life making despair convincing and I decided when I was 18 years old that without any logical reason that I would embrace hope that I could be different and this world could be different, if only so that I could just feel better about waking up every morning that I have. It may, as my bumper sticker says, be radical, but it is also just the only way I’ve been able to make it through my life so far—choosing to embrace hope over despair and doing so again and again and again….
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