This is a fascinating, perhaps distinctlvely iGen idea: the world is an inherently dangerous place because every social interaction carries the risk of being hurt. You never know what someone is going to say, and there’s no way to protect yourself from it.*
Jean Twenge

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow stronger.**
William Butler Yeats

Is the world a dangerous place?
Yes:
Is the world a magical place?
Yes;
Perhaps, as we grow the depth
and wonder and glory of
who we are, we may see and name this world,
This life,
Sacred:
a way of seeing that is
based on what the soul
already knows, that both
the earth and every
human being are sacred^.

This life will not
come to us,
We must go find it,
As Viktor Frankl proffers:
Life no longer appears to us
as a given, but
as something given over to us,
it is a task in every moment.
This therefore means that it can
only become more meaningful the more
difficult it becomes.^^

We must be vulnerable to life,
To the danger as well as the magic –
Though not the chaos – as poet
David Whyte helps us to see
as he writes:
We try and construct a life in which
we will be perfect, in which we will
eliminate awkwardness, pass by
vulnerability, ignore
ineptness, only to
pass through the gate of our lives
and find strangely that
the gateway is vulnerability itself.
The very place were are open
to the world whether
we like it or not.*^

*Jean Twenge’s iGen;
**Jonah Paquette’s Awestruck;
^Philip Newell’s Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul;
^^Viktor Frankl’s Yes to Life;
*^David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea.