Finding Hope, ep. 1
HOOOOPE!!! Where are you? How did I lose you?! Where have you gone? Did someone else need you more and that’s why you left?
I do need you.
As I’m reading “Active Hope” book by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, I’m trying to practice having you, but you don’t seem to care much.
They mention Work that Reconnects, but as I’m currently writing this on a train, this work seems… hopeless.
There are dozens, maybe hundreds people here, just staring at their phones, all of them have headphones on.
So now I’ve decided to become one of them too.
I’m one of the disconnected ones.
Connected to my phone.
Connected to some music.
But disconnected from people around me. Disconnected from the world.
Can I connect with this people? I tried when going in this train, I tried talking to them about the train and seats distribution, but nobody even replied.
Am I being crazy already?
Maybe I should have used some hook? Or pick a more engaging subject?
I don’t think I have it in me to connect people everywhere I go. But maybe I do? Maybe I should try?
How can I have hope, if I need reconnection and I’m losing hope that reconnection is even possible.
You ask a lot, Hope.
Waste my time again, casualty of conformity.
