A person’s life doesn’t fall apart all at once; it’s the little compromises, little heartbreaks, little mistakes, that pave the way to decline and overwhelming despair. 1/6
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But Albert Camus’ words apply to a country as well as to an individual: “In the midst of winter, I have found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” 3/6
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We have within us as a nation, just like we have it within us as individuals, to summon the strength that lies deep within us and decide to rise up. 4/6
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It’s not what other people are doing but only what we are doing, that determines whether our lives are defined by breakdown or breakthrough, decline or rebirth, by fear or by love. 5/6
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But we are at a point where we have to decide; to not decide is a decision in and of itself. To think we don’t have to radically change is to foster our societal decline.
In the words of Abraham Lincoln, “As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew.”
It’s the 11th hour, but it isn’t midnight yet…there’s still time if we will use time well. 6/6
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