The Truth About Hope, Peace, Despair, and War.

As I write this, or speak this, or read this, realize that I am you, who reads this or speaks this in my stead. I speak for you, I read for you, and I do this because we all think these things, but cannot say them lest we seem unfounded or alone in these thoughts and words. I care not if I am alone, for if that is the case, my life is relatively short and so is the time humanity would seem to have left on this Earth.
I write now about the way to peace, in light of the thoughts of Albert Schweitzer. He spoke of the human spirit, and how it was in need of universal embrace from humanity itself. He spoke of the danger that humanity was - and still is - entrenched within. He reminded us all that there is hope, but that it only exists as much as we let it.
If humanity does not - of it’s own volition - rise into a moral power beyond anything ever seen in the past, this race may put itself into extinction through the folly of war. If we allow ourselves to slide down this slope that leads to self-destruction, eventually no amount of logic will save us.
All religion aside, there will certainly be an end of days, like there is for every person. Like many times in the past, there will likely be an end of days for many, many people in a short period of time. But in its wake, there will be survivors. As there have always been survivors, there will be such folk, human or no. Intellect will develop again if it is ever lost to living races, and the potential for glory and universal love will always be waiting.
If there is an apocalypse in the future of humanity, and it is not instantaneous in its arrival, then all humanity will unify to combat this apocalypse. Whether the threat is from within or from some other source, humanity is designed to adapt not only to dangers of the body and mind, but also of the spirit.
If, and when, the end of all hope is reached, there will most certainly be a return to hope and joy. It will occur almost without warning, and it will build from a speck to a mighty hurricane’s force in almost an instant, and when it has at the very least tried to save the people it works through, it will not stop until that end of all hope is forgotten and lost from our hindsight.
If humanity simply stays asleep until the last minute, it will wake up. There has always been that knowledge in the spirit of humanity, and the concept of any other possibility has always been absurd to us. Every story we listen to, from The Lord of the Rings, to Star Wars, has such situations at the closest climax. All hope is gone, and it should stay gone, but within the deepest reaches of the psyche of all life, there is a sound of alarm, that wakes up all but those who choose to reject hope entirely.
Despair will be the only way to ensure humanity’s destruction. As long as people hope for a proper future, and fight for it as vigorously as they would fight for any imaginable thing, whether a country or simply their own life, we will prevail. The cost will always be enormous, on a scale worthy of the danger we allow ourselves to experience. If too many are forced into despair, there simply cannot be hope for humanity.
But to use that last fact as an excuse to abandon hope is nothing other than giving out a self-fulfilling prophecy, with no purpose other than to provide pleasant sensations of knowing the truth in the present, instead of working toward a future worthy of the spirit they wish to espouse.
To the everyman, who dreams but cannot achieve, I say keep dreaming, and speak of your dreams with others. Eventually people will act, and when they do, things will happen that may yet change your mind on what is humanly possible.
Must we wait until the very end of possibility before we try to save ourselves? Of course not. But we will most likely end up doing so, as we have countless times in the past. I do not hope for this, nor do I have despair that this will be the case. We must think of beginning this creation of our own future in the present, and let those who would create learn what there is that can be created.
In the end, people always die, and eventually this planet will also die, like so many planets around it and within the known universe. That time has not come yet, but there is a reason it is there: to inspire all denizens of nature to never give up hope of survival, nor to ever give up hope of overcoming despair.

~ David