I just had a really nice Kum Nye session, and the phrase came in “it’s earlier than you think”.
Now I have quite often engaged in very apocalyptic doom and gloom. An underlying level of tension translates easily into the perception of negative possibilities. People of my sort–and here I would suggest reasonably intelligent and reasonably sensitive, bookish sorts–tend that way.
But maybe it will all work out, somehow. That is certainly among the possibilities, isn’t it?
I get angry sometimes. I allow abusive trolls to get under my skin. At the same time, though, my reason and my gut both tell me we all need to work AS IF this can all be sorted out. Our demonic children can be brought back to the light. Pervasive terrible and imbecilic ideas can be corrected, over some time horizon.
This sort of positive thinking creates possibilities which would otherwise be invisible. We do not necessarily need to brace for the worst, but work and prepare for the best.
I don’t have a crystal ball. I am confused and angry and sad and bitter, and disappointed, and sometimes even vengeful. I’ve got the whole array. But I speak truth when I say good things COULD and perhaps even WILL happen, all of THIS notwithstanding.