There was still some hope

When I look back on the 70s when I was in primary school and the early 80s, when I went to high school, I can remember being a dreamer.

I had day dreams of a life of future grandeur = only these dreams never eventuated. My goodness, what a sob story - but I think it's important to note how, not only did many of my dreams not come true, but a small per cent of mega-rich people have taken any chance the average person has of living out his or her dreams.

This is the unthinkable reality of the world in which we live - whether it is the dream home, which is now worth $2million, which many people will not attain in their lifetimes, whether it's the hope and belief that people care about you and not just themselves - a hope that has been smashed into a million pieces, whether it's your belief that your quality of life dictates that you should have pride in yourself and what you do for a living, when everyone around you is losing their personal pride at rapid speed, whether it's your belief that love between a man and woman should be a lifelong connection, while people all around prefer short-term relationships, whether it's your loyalty to those fundamental principals, which make you the person you are, while everyone around has lost their principals.

All these things are heart breaking to the idealist dreamer . These horrific things that destroyed our childhood dreams show us how stupid we really were to hold on to many of our dreams in the way we did.

Where to from here? you may ask. That;s a very good question.

The idea that once there was still some hope and now that hope has gone is tragic.

All that's left is for us to reconstruct our own realities ourselves - a tough ask - but it's all we have left.

There is still room for us to find that hope of a childhood, long gone, but if we do, then we have to create it in our own minds and live out our dreams on our own terms.

I still, in a very pessimistic way lament on the words that once there was some hope. To restore this hope is going to take a terrible amount of work ― Joseph Walz