From “The Case for Hope” by Rebecca Solnit

"The future is bigger than our imaginations. 

It’s unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. 

To meet it we need to keep going, 

to walk past what we can imagine. 

We need to be unstoppable. 

And here’s what it takes: 

you don’t stop walking to congratulate yourself; 

you don’t stop walking to wallow in despair; 

you don’t stop because your own life got too comfortable or too rough; 

you don’t stop because you won; 

you don’t stop because you lost. 

There’s more to win, more to lose, others who need you.

You don’t stop walking because there is no way forward. 

Of course there is no way. 

You walk the path into being, you make the way, 

and if you do it well, others can follow the route. 

You look backward to grasp the long history you’re moving forward from, 

the paths others have made, the road you came in on. 

You look forward to possibility. 

That’s what we mean by hope, 

and you look past it into the impossible 

and that doesn’t stop you either. 

But mostly you just walk, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. That’s what makes you unstoppable."