Throw your hands up and just admit defeat.

This is the call for those who just had enough and don’t know how to work around it anymore. After the multitude of paths taken, chances given and patience used up, there is no opportunity to go any further.

The world can seem like a place that is in decline… and it always has… but now we get the instant communication of every awful thing happening as it occurs. This gets coupled with the commentary from those who feel entitled the world wants to hear their opinion, yet, they are also in the same category as people you try to avoid having as dinner guests.

All that you’ve been working toward has shored up nothing to very little. What’s the point?

The expectations of life have been met with the harsh reality the universe doesn’t bend itself to your whims and wishes. Those are simply platitudes others provide because they can think of nothing else to say.

It’s the wrong politician, the wrong political party, the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, the wrong law, the wrong decision and the wrong way to do things.

The ideas of hope we have in our head are replaced with the ocean of pessimism and we hope to share that bitterness with others.

How could it have all gone so wrong?

Then we remember the story we come into the world with… the one we are all meant to hear… again… and again…

It comes back to us through a random song you will never hear again, a stranger you meet at a train station, a wrong turn on a road that ends up at the most breathtaking scenery, a book you randomly picked up and can’t explain why, a walk in nature and a friend you never expected to call.

This is the story of a world of infinite wonder and mystery.
That anything is possible.
That people really care for each other.
There’s more to it than just you.
This story of your own is woven into a much greater tale, spanning billions of years.

Before we give up, remember the story.