This year I am writing a blog post for each of the twelve days of Christmas as I have done a few times before. I don’t have a theme this year, so my topics come from what is on my mind in that moment. Here is the third post of this Christmas. Another post that started one way and ended up another. I have so many things I want to talk and write about 🙂
I have been pondering a lot about how we can make things better in the world. I want a world of accept, respect, tolerance, care, and love. I want a world, where people can be who they are without fear. I want peace and harmony. I don’t want fake harmony, where we pretend that everything is fine. I want harmony, where we embrace differences and cherish differences as part of the whole. I want peace, where we can disagree and still respect each other, love each other, care about each other. As a minimum accept and respect each other.
I know that we will never truly get there, so I am hoping that we can keep moving forwards; that we keep making things better; that we keep improving.
Things are bad in the world. No doubt about that. There is so much pain and intolerance, wars, tyrants, apathy, diseases, violence, hunger etm. etm. I feel like things are going backwards in many places. It does not look good.
And yet I can take a step back and see progress over time. Things are better now than it was 100 years ago, and we keep moving forward even with the setbacks that happen. I just don’t think that it is fast enough. I want to see the improvements happen faster. I hope that we can make improvements happen faster.
We need hope:
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
We must accept that there are setbacks, and that some things do no work out. We must not lose hope that things can get better. That things will get better.
Hope is not a strategy; many have said this and many keep saying this. I disagree. Having hope as the only strategy is not good, because then nothing will happen. We need to change things by doing and by speaking. A strategy without hope is not good. We need to combine hope with action and words.
We need the hope: hope is the energy that will drive our actions. If there is no hope for better times, we will not make an effort to make that happen. With hope, we can choose to do good, because we know that it will matter. We have the hope showing the way.
I am in it for the long haul, and while things can be dark, I try my hardest to get back to a place of hope. Hope that we can make the world better together.
What do you want? Nourish your hope for that and pick your actions.
Hope is real and it is there.
Blogpost for the first day of Christmas 24/25: Making the world a little better
Blogpost for the second day of Christmas 24/25: Who do you want to be?
Blogpost for the fourth day of Christmas 24/25: Ripples in the Water
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