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It is in our individual capacity to confront the potential of the future and to transform it into the actuality of the present. The way we determine what the world transforms into is a consequence of our ethical, conscious choices. We wake up in the morning and confront the day, with all its possibilities and terrors. We chart a course, making decisions for better or worse. We understand that we can do evil and bring terrible things into Being. But we also know that we can do good, if not great, things. We have the best chance of doing the latter if we act properly due to being truthful, responsible, grateful, and humble.
The right attitude to the horror of existence the alternative to resentment, deceit, and arrogance is the assumption that there is enough of you, society, and the world to justify existence. That is faith in yourself, your fellow man, and the structure of existence itself: the belief that there is enough to you to contend with existence and transform your life into the best it could be. Perhaps you could live in a manner whose nobility, grandeur, and intrinsic meaning would be of sufficient importance to tolerate the negative elements of existence without becoming so bitter as to transform everything around you into something resembling hell.
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