On Hope, Struggle And The Good Fight...

Sometimes hope can be a difficult thing to find. Sometimes despair and hopelessness can feel overwhelming. Sometimes you have to look for hope. Sometimes you want to give up. I know this feeling. Sometimes hope is broken down by traumatic events, rough times or bullies who seem to have all the power and all the control. Well, they may appear to be undefeatable and situations can appear hopeless and they are in fact very difficult, but I am writing this to say that nothing is ever truly hopeless and you can always fight the good fight relentlessly until you win and you should never give up. I am writing this for those who face oppression and exploitation in any of their many forms. Sometimes you can even stumble upon hope accidentally, but most of the time you have to find it in your own heart, desires, dreams, values or ideology. Sometimes, you may be given false hope by some asshole (often politicians) and that may bring you back to square one. If they claim to be your hope from a position of power, they will probably sell you out. The hope, that is in your comrades who fight beside you as equals because what you want and what they want are inherently linked because all your comrades' interests are somehow intertwined. That is something that can be achieved only by a horizontal sense of unity, solidarity and a strong will. That is true of the struggle for the eight hour day, for the precedent of resistance sparked during the stonewall riots and many other points in history. You don't need to rely on promises at the ballot box but a truly bottom up fight in the streets. You lose fights the same way you win them, but if you lose you should never let that make you stay down. You get back up and fight again. If you haven't let go of your hope and the fight then you haven't truly lost yet and if you haven't truly lost yet you can still win or at least push forward.