heller, stranger

“We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don’t wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we’re right to hold on to hope.

The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

For the first seventeen days after the mine collapsed, those miners lived two-thousand feet under the ground on two days worth of rations, with no knowledge that anyone was ever going to come for them. Obviously, not all stories end happily. We don’t always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn’t have: a chance.”