Win some, lose some

What’s going on? I never blog Monday to Friday! That’s right, I don’t. So I thought I’d give it a try. A more social September.

It’s taken a lot of music, movies and series, hours of exercise and gardening, and tons of family time to get through this year, and it’s going to take plenty more before the year is done. But you got to keep going. Keep on moving, keep on dreaming, keep on working on whatever your life is made of, or on changing that, and your future, and ours. You won’t lose, you can’t lose, unless you give up. You can experience defeat, single events in a long line of experiences that are the story of you, but you will never be a loser until you decide to give up on yourself or the world we live in.

Remember that, dearest denizens. Being defeated does not make you and mark you as a loser. It just means you went for it, you were active, you tried, but did not succeed in that endeavor in that moment in time. That’s all it means. That’s all it is. Don’t make it to be something it’s not; that only leads to pointless feelings of guilt, suffering and self-recrimination. Ain’t nobody got time for that, agreed? Don’t waste precious time and energy. Live and learn and move on.

I often write about hope because I view it as both a tonic and an antidote. Hope is not passive, wishful thinking, a Hail Mary pass. Hope is not a noun but a verb, a doing word. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to look up Professor C. R. Snyder this coming October. He has a theory and a toolkit that might boost and soothe you, as contradictory as that sounds, on this roller-coaster ride we’re taking.

This decade got off to a pretty shitty start. You know what that means? The only way is up.