Welcome. I'm Connor Beaton, and today we are going to talk about counter striking hopelessness.

Now, this is a topic that I've been wanting to dive into for a long time

and have just put some thought into the sort of philosophy and the philosophical question

behind how do we actually counterstrike hopelessness?

Because the reality is that all of us in our life, all of us at some point in our existence,

will suffer the heavy weight of carrying the heavy weight of hopelessness within our hearts, within our minds,

and within our soul. And for some of us, this hopelessness will lead us into such a darkness

that we will question our own existence. We will question whether or not we should continue on

on the path of living simply because we feel so hopeless

in the space, the place that we find ourselves in our relationship, in our career, and within

our mental state, an emotional state. And maybe for some of us, we never find that depth of hopelessness.

We never find that depth of lostness within our life. But surely all of us, all of us have

touched and felt the inner pangs of hopelessness in a situation in our circumstance.

When we lose a parent suddenly or a child, when we struggle within a relationship to maintain

balance and order, when intimacy breaks apart, when our integrity fails and we fall flat on our face because

of infidelity or lying or gambling or cheating or falling prey to an addiction.

All of us have struggled with a sense of hopelessness that is equal to the pains that other

people have felt at some point in their life.

And we all know, we all know that all of us at some point have experienced our own

version of hell because of the hopelessness that we felt, because of the inability to not know which

direction we should move our life, because of the lack of clarity of what to do next in the

moments where we need decisions the most. So today I'm going to talk about how to counterstrike hopelessness.

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