How To Fight Despair: Three Women Writers Explain 

I know bad things keep happening, but don't give up! Further thoughts 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D5K7HhD8pdY.html

The stresses of being a single working mother to two kids distracted me from despair. I was pressed financially at times, I was busy, I was under pressure, to the point where half an hour of peace recharged me. Now I'm facing a bank holiday weekend and I've nothing planned. One of my kids has moved out and I'm not sad about that but having only one very busy young adult living at home, I'm now free to notice that there was nothing but BUSINESS and Responsibilities in my life for years. And I met them. Now I have a three day weekend and only one pilates class planned. I try to maintain friendships but I feel like I'm chasing after people with more exciting lives. I want to live a long life because life is valuable but I haven't built that life yet...

Thanks Professor Moore for this video and all your efforts to make this a better world. May there be more people like you to move us to new beginnings. Wishing you well and all your students and all those fortunate to hear your thoughts. I am grateful for the people, past and present and those to come, who have and will inspire us all. Wishing you good health and to those dear to you.

I think this made so many of us feel very seen ❤ Just calling something by its name is so freeing!

Wow! Thank you for that Arendt quote. Just what I needed.

Been having an equally beautiful and equally hard year; this helped a lot. I will continue to do art ❤

Soo glad I came across this channel!! Thank you

"To resist despair, that second makes you see... To resist despair, 'cuz you can't change everything... To resist despair in this world is what it is to be free."

Fear and anxiety many times are a response to avoid dying and cutting that time short.

I'm always so thrilled to get the notification that you've published another video. I simply love listening to you explore these works. I'm wondering if you've ever considered publishing your lectures? I'm not sure if this is something that is feasible or even allowed with university regulations, but the more I engage with your work, the more I find myself wishing I could take your course.

Beautiful video, thank you!

the thing with hope for me is that it is very much bound to a point in time and place. the idea that doom is *not* inevitable is rational to us (WEIRD people) now maybe. but imagine being a middle aged or older non-nazi person in the thirties in Europe: your life ends in the middle of a second world war in your lifetime and the most heinous and horrible acts of unimaginable cruelty. you see everything, the whole world go to shit and there is nowhere to go. so hope - for me - is not a good medicine against despair, because for us as individuals it is or can be, depending on time and place you're in, just naive, completely unrealistic and escapist. what lifts me up from despair or maybe better put, distances me from despair time and again is the message from albert camus' the plague: accept that there is (or may be) no rational reason for hope, accept that doom is or at least very well may be at your doorstep, accept that you have no power to change reality, no power to change the world. and now ask yourself: how do you want to exist until the inevitable end? do you want to exist in despair and give up? do you want to "make the best of it" and at least try to get yourself the best position? or do you still want to live according to your values to the bitter end because it's who you are? every time i ask myself these questions a heavy weight falls off my shoulders and i say to myself: yes, there maybe no hope, there almost certainly is no chance for the world to become a utopia (or at least free of the most terrible banes like war) and with absolute certainty not in my lifetime. but does that change how i want to live? does that change my values and principles? no. i will continue to "fight" in the face of my certain failure to reach the goal. why? because it's just who i am.

What we call civilization demands the denial of human needs. So can we be human beings in the midst of "civilization?"