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Apr. 16th, 2019 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
colebaltblueSometimes I think about why I remain an eternally optimistic person. My mom once commented that in a world of dwindling resources and calamity that it seems almost irresponsible to have children. Other people have shared this sentiment. As a mom, I don't take offense. I understand their pessimism about our future, but I don't share it.
Today I watched a video that someone had shot on their cellphone and uploaded to Twitter of a crowd gathering around Notre Dame in Paris and singing her a song and it moved me nearly to tears. This, this right here is why I'm optimistic to my core. I firmly believe that we, as a species, have a greater capacity to love than we do to hate. Sometimes we do horrific things to ourselves and others, but at the end of the day we sing to buildings because they are hurt, we are moved by that, and we share that feeling with the world on a tool we built to share ourselves and our feelings with the world. Sometimes those feelings are complicated, sometimes they are simple. Sometimes they hurt and sometimes they heal. But at the end the day, I believe that the ethos of the world is favors love (to paraphrase MLK).
So, having children in this world? I believe that yes, we do have a moral and ethical responsibility to be stewards in this world, but I'm too optimistic to not believe that that we aren't capable of saving ourselves from ourselves and I refuse to simply give up and die about it.
Today I watched a video that someone had shot on their cellphone and uploaded to Twitter of a crowd gathering around Notre Dame in Paris and singing her a song and it moved me nearly to tears. This, this right here is why I'm optimistic to my core. I firmly believe that we, as a species, have a greater capacity to love than we do to hate. Sometimes we do horrific things to ourselves and others, but at the end of the day we sing to buildings because they are hurt, we are moved by that, and we share that feeling with the world on a tool we built to share ourselves and our feelings with the world. Sometimes those feelings are complicated, sometimes they are simple. Sometimes they hurt and sometimes they heal. But at the end the day, I believe that the ethos of the world is favors love (to paraphrase MLK).
So, having children in this world? I believe that yes, we do have a moral and ethical responsibility to be stewards in this world, but I'm too optimistic to not believe that that we aren't capable of saving ourselves from ourselves and I refuse to simply give up and die about it.
