I'm a little older than you, so my experience of this realization came with the first Gulf wars of the 1990s which I protested with the fervence of youth. I went on to spend the next 15 years enmeshed in radical activism around many causes, all of them hopeless from the start. I am now, 30 years later, about to retire from being presiden…
I'm a little older than you, so my experience of this realization came with the first Gulf wars of the 1990s which I protested with the fervence of youth. I went on to spend the next 15 years enmeshed in radical activism around many causes, all of them hopeless from the start. I am now, 30 years later, about to retire from being president of my union local. I don't know that I have been naive in all my activities despite the fact I've picked the "losing" side over and over. I like to think that despite the world as it is, I've been able to carry a vision forward of something different- more compassionate, more hopeful, more generous. Perhaps I am biased by my own life, but I would call that a strength of character that this world woefully needs these days.
I'm a little older than you, so my experience of this realization came with the first Gulf wars of the 1990s which I protested with the fervence of youth. I went on to spend the next 15 years enmeshed in radical activism around many causes, all of them hopeless from the start. I am now, 30 years later, about to retire from being president of my union local. I don't know that I have been naive in all my activities despite the fact I've picked the "losing" side over and over. I like to think that despite the world as it is, I've been able to carry a vision forward of something different- more compassionate, more hopeful, more generous. Perhaps I am biased by my own life, but I would call that a strength of character that this world woefully needs these days.
Absolutely sounds like the kind of strength of character that the world woefully needs these days! This was really inspiring to read.