It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn

 Is that true? Does it get darker late at night, or is that sort of a tautology that as soon as dawn begins, the sky is definitionally getting lighter?

In any case, I yearn for some good news. As it stands, I have been traveling all summer, in an attempt to restore my vision. I _think_ it should work, because I have a full field of vision. Moreover, I think my vision was stereoscopic until my fiancée left. In fact, I can remember my vision getting worse. The thing is, I don’t recall how “good” it got. Memories are notoriously unreliable.

Either way, tomorrow I see yet another eye doctor, and I’m increasingly optimistic. I mean, you can read this, right?

Anyway, there’s a lot to do. I feel like throughout my life, the prevailing wisdom has been “YOLO.” In a nutshell, because we do not live forever, it’s our responsibility to have fun. To some degree, I was a believer. However, now I know first-hand we have a lot of work to do (and still I see no flying cars).

It should be a human value to contribute more of what we want to the world. This can easily lead to conflict, too, but it’s at least between humans. As it stands, anybody can be derailed by a biological failure. And before you get on a high horse about nature or whatever, tell me about your polio.

The point is we have a lot to do. Sometimes it seems like it’s time to kick back and marvel at what humans have done, but I assure you there’s more undone than finished.