I think you understand as well as anyone how very dark the situation is right now, but what keeps me moving forward is how very bright the future could possibly be.

None of my research has indicated there is a literal Hell or Heaven as they are commonly understood (although there most certainly is an afterlife, or as some understand it a "real life" after this one). But what I have come to piece together is that we have a choice between a descent into what amounts to Hell on Earth, or the manifestation of all we need of Heaven in the physical plane.

I mean this not just in the poetic sense, but in actual, practical terms (which, funnily enough, really does wrap back around to Heaven and Hell as they are understood mythologically but it's a very long story).

I think a real deal was struck, with real terms, and we were given the tools to be able to prevail. We are now in the midst of that contest. In my carefully considered estimation, we are prevailing and gain strength every day.

But if it is, in the fullness of time, our fate to lose it all, well, fuck it, I'll still go down swinging. Even if to no other entity in the Universe, I am still answerable to my own conscience.