A lamp only shines at a part of the wall. To learn more, we must look elsewhere from time to time.

“There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.

The war we fight is not against powers and principalities – it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.

No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”

The future is unknown and unforgiving, keeping up optimism is oftentimes a difficult challenge. Some people have to remain optimistic about the future to do what they do best^[1], but many others can be quite content with realism. Yet often enough, all we can do, is hope.

Hope is what leads progress, we hope that everything works out without a hitch. Then again, if it does not, we can fix the hitch and hope there are no more problems. It is the tried and true method of experimentation. But to make any progress, we need to test new things, broaden new horizons. I would gladly write about it, but doing so would be redundant as recently I came across a piece of writing about the very subject of the present lack of ambition and hope that has caused the lack of great discoveries of late. Since it is a relatively long (though very interesting) text, I shall leave you to it and I’ll be back soon. Enjoy.