What is about getting older that makes you think the past was full of hope and the future full of fear?
When I young all the mistakes seemed to be in the past, I wasn't living in a time of war like in "the olden days". Society was developing ideas of tolerance and equality, technology was making things better.
Now I look at the future; I see leaders determined to oppose all the lessons of history, just as our children seemed to oppose all lessons. I see other similarities between or leaders and our children; they have no respect for others, they have no respect for anything other than themselves. There is a constant desire to create a system that will allow the maximum exploitation of each other.
I can't stop the violence or the hatred, the ignorance or the carelessness. All I seem to be able to do is pretend it isn't happening and remember the hope I once had.
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Hope is for the young, because hope means looking to the future. When I was younger I believed (stonger than hope) that a letter to the 'Pharmaceutical Journal' would quickly be acted upon by the Council of the Society. It was only years later that I learned that the Council members thought the PJ an irritant, and the letters mainly ignored.
We can make differences, but it mainly comes from collective action, not as we think when young, by action on our own.
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