Don't Give Up

 When my mother lay in a hospital bed near death, I told her "don't give up" and she repeated it over and over. She didn't "give up" and in her last hours, she smiled and seemed to see something or someone far off a vision that was not bad or sad. She didn't give up. I thought about that when I read an article today which had a time line for how bad the future will be (according to the writers) and the graph showed that in about eight years all aspects of human life could end. It told that the world would be run by billionaires and that the skies above and the earth below and the people within it would end. Not in my book. These articles or pieces of someone's dark research should have come out at the beginning of the Dark Ages when the Kings and Lords and Power Brokers stopped supporting their serfs and slaves who fed and cared for them in a pittance, went off clutching their gold off to their lairs in far corners where they could count the coins and eat their feasts and drink their quaffs alone in luxury and end there.  In those black times, the ordinary folks didn't give up in sadness and depression, they made the adjustments that were necessary and being humans who are resourceful and creative, they worked hard and survived. They formed governmental structures that were benevolent, they developed agriculture and commerce in ways that worked and life went on. And very well, on. The kings and princes and lords faded away and democractic forms of society began. It grew and prospered and if it appears not to work today, there are still strong hopes among ordinary human beings who don't have billions of pieces of paper called money, but continue to be imaginative and creative, kind and generous and considerate of each other and do and will survive. Human beings since they became inhabitants of the earth, have done exactly what they are best designed for, and that is to stay aware, alive and replenish and survive. Giving up is not an option. Nor are articles that serve only to drag us down with viewpoints that are negative. We humans, have always  survived and always will. We shall not give up.