The Inner Crisis of Hope

When you're feeling apathetic and lost, nobody sits up staring at a TV at 2am if they have important shit to do the next day. Nobody struggles with the will to move their ass off the couch for hours on end unless they're having some sort of inner crisis of hope. And it's exactly this crisis that I want to speak to. Look, I know how you feel, I say. Nobody knows how I feel. You reflexively tell yourself, surprised at how automatic the response is. But like most people struggling, you've enveloped yourself so much in your pain that you've forgotten that pain is common,. Your strife is not uniquely yours. On the contrary, it