The act of problem solving, thinking of new ideas, conveying them and listening to others is what keeps me from falling into despair.
Despair is what I feel when the future is pre-ordained and there is nothing I can do that will affect or change it. Despair is the apathy of watching a TV program where the premise and the characters are the same as most other programs on TV. Despair is reading or listening to the news - a list of devastating crises, knowing that tomorrow there will a whole new list. Despair is being a consumer of things that don't require anything from me.
I know that this despair is very far from being a Syrian refugee or having a diagnosis of cancer, but despair is an emotional rot, and it is not naive to do or be what can alleviate these troubles. It is to participate in life, to seek new ideas, to value oneself enough to attempt a human response to the dehumanizing inventories of the system.
Just because the answer is not available right now doesn't mean it never will be.
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