Wonderful commentary there, rlmorel.
I’m sure my Dad experienced these feelings of despair in battle. He was a Navy gunner’s mate on an LST at Normandy and Okinawa. He used to tell us, “If you we’re scared, you weren’t there.”
Picking yourself up and fighting is part of life. This is why the dependency on government is so crippling to society. We are raising a nation of snowflakes. And the repressive Covid 19 reaction is hurting the risk takers, the people on main street, the small business people.
Like President Trump says, “Never, never give up.”
The glory of life is achievement — overcoming the odds to strike a life for yourself and your family. We love the pleasures of life, but I think true happiness comes from achievement.
Good post, FRiend. I am downcast right now, but trying to get up.