In this moment in the world, there is much darkness, complexity, ambiguity, and injustice with sharp political divides. I feel a sense of urgency to wake up, grow up and show up fully in this all-hands-on-deck moment that we appear to be living in.
Even without this current state of affairs, we, as humans, feel a pull to find purpose and make meaning because of our finite existences. As Viktor Frankl said in Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything:
The fact, and only the fact, that we are mortal, that our lives are finite, that our time is restricted, and our possibilities are limited, this fact is what makes it so meaningful to do something, to exploit a possibility and make it become a reality, to fulfill it, to use our time and occupy it. Death gives us a compulsion to do so. (p. 43)
Or, as Peter’s stepmom reminds us: “None of us is getting out of here alive.”
The question I am sitting with now is: What can I do?
Kindly,
David