Mike Dilger on Nostr: I'm not a minister but I feel like a mini-sermon is in order. Sometimes the world can ...

I'm not a minister but I feel like a mini-sermon is in order.

Sometimes the world can get you down. Sometimes it feels like everything is wrong, that governments can't be fixed, and we are all doomed.

Time like these are the best times to be a stoic.

The difference between success and failure is not the eventual outcome. Whether Julian Assange is freed or not isn't the measure of your success. You are successful when you know that you did all that you could do, all that was in your power from your position about the situation. And that you didn't let cynicism get you down, make you think that it doesn't matter anyway, and to let that thought smother the small thing you could have done.

Always make the effort. Then you can be proud and satisfied of your own efforts, because not giving up, being the best you can be, no matter how little it might affect tha goal.. that is the measure of your success.

Never let them get you down. The outcome is always uncertain, and it is never the true measure of your spirit.

Do your best, then feel good about that. BEING the change you want to see in the world. It will lift your spirits.