THIJS LAUNSBACH
We can handle our messed-up world by returning to our roots.
We can handle our messed-up world, together. Provided we become radically human, in the original sense of radix, root. Seeing through who we are, who we were, and who we always will be. Taking care of our inner selves: sleeping, eating, moving, playing, and resting. Learning to trust ourselves again, not because we are perfect, but precisely because we are vulnerable beings who cannot help but do our best. Living courageously.
Doing the things we find important in the world, not out of a pursuit of success, but because they are meaningful to us. We can handle our messed-up world by returning to our roots. By placing ourselves in the broader context of all those others. That personal network in which we are connected to fallible, vulnerable people who are also just doing their best, whom we dare to trust, just as much as ourselves.
What a world that would be.
