Hope for the Future

It’s hard to see hope for the future in a world where a bunch of crazy guys with automatic weapons can burst into a rock concert, or a restaurant,and just start killing people.
It’s hard to see hope for the future when you see how tightly the big corporations control things.
It’s hard to see hope for the world when scientists tell us, straight up to our faces, environmental disaster, maybe catastrophe, is looming and it’s imperative that we totally switch to non-fossil fuels, plant about a hundred billion trees and get this shit cleaned up immediately,and everybody just shrugs and says “eh, whatever.”
It’s hard to see hope for the future when police murder people, beat people up, and treat people like crap in a hundred different abusive ways, it’s all caught on camera and they STILL don’t get prosecuted.
Then you turn off the TV and take a walk outside. The leaves have almost all fallen from the trees, which is right on schedule and exactly what should be happening at this time of year. You see kids playing. You see old people sitting on park benches and doing nothing. You see a construction site that’s a bit further along than it was yesterday.
You see plenty of hope for the future.