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Don't give up. Do what you can (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's a difficult time, and I am also struggling with issues around feeling defeated. However, a friend shared something with me that's really been helping. It's a lovely passage from a write up about hope, written during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire article is well worth the read, but I'll quote the particular passage below: https://lawliberty.org/j-r-r-tolkien-and-the-necessity-of-hope/#:~:text=After%20Gandalf%20and%20Pippin%20arrive,rightly%20anticipating%20what%20may%20be.

"After Gandalf and Pippin arrive in Minas Tirith, Beregond, one of the men of Gondor, explains, “Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green.” Hope may thus be drawn from what has been, as a means of rightly anticipating what may be."