Neurotic fatalism is only another disguised form of escape from responsibility; the neurotic fatalist is betraying his uniqueness and singularity when he seeks refuge in typicality and courts the unalterable destiny of belonging to a type.*
Viktor Frankl
To hope is risk. It’s to take a chance on losing. It’s also to take a chance on winning, and you can’t win if you don’t try …**
Rebecca Solnit
We are inventing
more “types” all the time–
But you are not a type.
To be you is a risk
and you may fail–
But real hope has no expiration date.
We need a hopeful expression
of you around here.
*Viktor Frankl’s The Doctor and the Soul;
**Rebecca Solnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There.
THIN|SILENCE 