Choosing a better way

Just this evening, I sat with a couple I've known for several years. They've faced challenges enough to diminish a weak soul's strength, yet they inwardly maintain a sense of composure that comes from a deep-seated knowledge that, as Samuel Johnson put it, 'a hundred years from now, it won't matter.' Whether they are consciously aware of the choices they're making or whether hope is their default setting, I can't be absolutely certain. One thing I do know is that they have not give despair permission to make it's home in their hearts and minds.

With determination in bite-size pieces, they're choosing a better way, a higher road than those who relinquish their dreams in the face of momentary trouble (regardless of how long or short those moments are). With a practical focus on making the 'best of what's coming and the least of what's going,' these two individuals have poised themselves to finish the book, perhaps even re-writing some of the chapters on the way, instead of deeming the story over after the first few chapters. To me the story reads something like their own personal epic of triumph over trouble, of hope in hardship.

Perhaps, in times like these, times which have been called 'highly unusual,' and 'the worst since World War 2' the world might take a leaf out of this book and dare to dream again, dare to hope again!
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