Keep Calm and Carry On
Jan. 1st, 2010 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakFor the average person in the long run the future looks better than the past. Less disease, more prosperity, and ever better technology. Unfortunately there is no such thing as an average person, he or she is an useful mathematical fiction, and in the long run we're all dead. Individuals and groups can fail to have a better future. Individuals and groups can also buck the trends of the larger group in which they are embedded.
Thus continuing to work hard towards our goals must be the credo for Americans. Yes, there are all sorts of good reasons not to be optimistic or to be disappointed at how things have turned out. It does not matter. We must still strive in both our personal lives and in the interlocking communities that we are a part of to make things better.
Hard work does not always bear all the fruit that we want, but it is far worse to do nothing. We should, at times, change what we are working towards rather than mindlessly continuing with the old plan as if nothing had changed, but in the absence of something better to try that is exactly what we must do. Redouble our efforts. Keep Calm and Carry On.
Thus continuing to work hard towards our goals must be the credo for Americans. Yes, there are all sorts of good reasons not to be optimistic or to be disappointed at how things have turned out. It does not matter. We must still strive in both our personal lives and in the interlocking communities that we are a part of to make things better.
Hard work does not always bear all the fruit that we want, but it is far worse to do nothing. We should, at times, change what we are working towards rather than mindlessly continuing with the old plan as if nothing had changed, but in the absence of something better to try that is exactly what we must do. Redouble our efforts. Keep Calm and Carry On.