This is the read I’ve been looking for. A long essay that explores our navigational plot through these times of existential crisis. And calibration of the compass based on Victor Frankl’s three-step model in our search for meaning.

• There’s Naive Optimism. Everything’s gonna work out! (via delusion or denial)
• Then there’s Existential Nihilism Nothing’s gonna work out ( via analysis or despair)
• And finally, Tragic Optimism. Everything’s gonna work out–just maybe not for me in this lifetime (via faith or hope)

What we need, it seems (now, more than ever) are more tragic optimists.

[…] what we can do is face the facts, and choose to be joyful in spite of them.

Not because it all works out for us.

But because it eventually works out for everyone.

We just have to keep the faith. And play our part.

For as long as it takes.

Wait till you have time, then go read the entire article: Leaving Space for Grace.