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“How to Live in the Hard that Almost Every Year Brings”
How in the world are we to the end of 2025 already? I have lived through enough New Year’s to know this much: almost every year is a mixed bag. Some joy. Some grief. Some things you never saw coming. Some things you prayed would never happen. This past year was no different for me….
No one has to be stuck.
An obvious risk of our societal obsession with being a victim is that there is little room for optimism. There is a minimal cultural payoff to being optimistic. If our identity is rooted in our victimhood, in the traumas that have befallen us, changing the outcomes of those traumas would be counterintuitive. Optimism- the act of hoping and believing those outcomes could change would not only be counterintuitive but would actually prove to be a threat to collective societal conscience.
