As I plumb the depths of my passion to reform healthcare and insure healthcare for all, at the root of this passion I find hope. And hope is complex. It derives from anger, hurt, fury, desolation, and loss. Hope is more than an emotion. Hope is a verb.
It means taking concrete action to embody and create the change you want to see in the world. And all the while knowing that this change may not occur in your lifetime, and this change may not directly benefit you. Or will it? For what you offer to benefit another, also blesses you.
There is a dauting road ahead for us all. Would you be with your anger, hurt, fury, desolation, and loss long enough to find hope in action. There is no turning back now. There is forging ahead, there is forging hope.
