anticipation

I have a wonderful feeling that we are on the verge of great things. Like something is about to happen to the entire world, maybe not at the same time, but eventually it will be a part of each one of us. The world is shedding the layers of stupor from laying dormant since the early part of this century, and waking up again. It's really weird to be feeling like this because everything is on fire, there is a pandemic and Trump and Putin are both presidents, but even despite this I feel hope for humanity like never before. It reminded me of this quote from Horace that I had to write an essay about in AP English two years ago- "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant" and like, well duh Horace, you don't have to be a classical philosopher to know that, but I now can really feel this happening, and it reminds me of that. 1979 by smashing pumpkins used to make me super depressed, but now it makes me feel like how I feel about the world, like it's all just beginning...............