I have spent months agonizing over this, and what I have come up with is that this is a struggle between hopelessness and hopefulness. The hopeful wants to fight for what is right in economy, identity, survival, and/or human rights. They believe in a better future. On the other hand, the hopeless see no light at the end of the tunnel; they have succumbed to their circumstances and only care about what affects them personally. I subscribe to the ideology that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. I am an optimist at heart and believe that billions of souls are out there just like me. I realize that the hopeless also have billions that feel just like them. That is the eternal struggle. Are our best days behind us like an image in our rearview mirror, or do we fight for that better future? I know the camp I am in.

Sincerely,

Arman Razavi

Friend of Metaphysical Pilates 

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan Kay