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Chin Up

Monday, March 4, 2024,

"Chin up" is a simple phrase that can be hard to live by in the modern world we live in.  Interconnectivity (primarily through social media), quickly shows you 1,000,000 reasons to despair, and have your chin down, throughout your day (if you let it. 

The world, brought to us mostly through out phones, tells us lies and makes us believe that...

  • My problems are complicated, and totally unsolvable...
  • Things are different nowadays....it's harder now than ever before in history to stay positive...
  • We're all doomed anyhow, so there's no point in trying...

The reality is that none of the above is true.  There's a great scene in Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" film when a high-ranking (but weak and distorted) steward/stand-in-leader sees the massive enemy army approaching him and his city and he shouts, in despair from the top of the city, "abandon your posts and flee for your lives", only to be immediately smacked down, and contradicted by a true leader, Gandalf the White, who silences the steward and shouts, "prepare for battle".  The audience applauded in the theater when this happened because despair and weakness always lose to hope and strength.  Chin up.

Namaste

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