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"Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness" - The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded
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Last April I was given the greatest gift ever. My ex-girlfriend bought me a pig. Yes, a pig.
She bought it through Amnesty International.
This pig wasn't mine for long. She bought it and gave it to someone in my name.
She recognized that giving a gift to someone in more need than myself was a gift to me.
I have yet to experience anything more beautiful.
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Let's face it, many people's faith in humanity diminishes. Some have given up on us altogether.
They have plenty of reasons. Whether they cite our violent tendencies, our environmental destruction, our apathy, or ultimate complacency; there's significant grounds for griping.
As a result, some, in desperation, take to the streets. Some turn to terrorism. Some, suicide.
How does one go on? Especially when witnessing such injustice and suffering?
Well, here's one reason. Humanity almost entirely created these inhumanities. If humanity was suited to create them, are we not suited to recreate them?
And aren't those, the most complicit and capable of perpetuating these inhumanities, the most responsible for changing them?
Some of us are more responsible than others, because some of us are more aware of them, but especially: aware of how to change them, than others.
If you ever questioned my motivation - here it is: if the most knowledgeable and capable of affecting change give up, then we are [politically correct]ed.
We need to step up. Because if we don't, who will? Only those with hope can give it.
(The following picture [at the top] hangs on the wall in my room)
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