Don’t Despair
Don’t despair when all seems lost right now. I know how difficult it is to remain hopeful when nothing hasn’t improved. Your mind and body are tired from doing the best work you can do. The world feels colder each day. Not a cast of sunshine radiates authentically. Only the faces of strength and courage to fight through the wildest storm ignite what little hope still resides.
I can’t say the world will see the peace we long for. I could only believe we can keep soldiering on for what we fight for each day we’re given. The darkness seems to grow stronger these days. Not a simple smile can rid such a force that dwells in the heart. Yet I see hope for better days ahead—unseen better days ahead of us—to afford a life of freedom by disowning the lies about ourselves and our limitations.
There’s a lot of bad in the modern world, but why are we still here? Because good still exists. If everything about this existence were bad, then nothing would be meaningful. When I see love from another person, I see goodness—the type of goodness that sparks real happiness.
Through a millennial youthful lens, life felt obtainable in every possible way yet it was naive of me to believe so. It couldn’t be helped, but feeling hopeless as an adult is not the way to go about life. I write this because I am lost in life’s journey right now. The journey feels like I’ve been traveling through the darkness of Mordor while trying to rid the Ring. The Ring of Despair.
When I rewatched The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Aragorn’s reassurances to the young lad in Helm’s Deep pierced my heart when he said to him; There is always hope. Four simple words I needed to hear. Something through Viggo’s Mortensen’s acting made those words meaningful and effective.
Long story short, there’s always hope in these dark times because without darkness there wouldn’t be any light to show us the way.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers
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