You look around these days and you see so many problems. Unemployment up. Housing crashing. The usual assortment of wars. Environment in meltdown. Unsustainable use of fossil fuels. Disease. Greed. Death.

Pretty fucking horrible, right?

And yet, I’m happy.

Not sociopath happy, but glad to have a big-fat-next-to-impossible problem ahead of us. Frankly, I think humans act best (and worst) when their back is against the wall. It’s time to either shine, or melt down.

There are only two ways of looking at the problems ahead of us. One, dispair. Admit that there’s not much we can do. Let things happen. Gods will. Two, roll up your sleeves. Find a part of the problem you can fix — and fix it. Any problem seems insurmontable, until you break it into to manageble pieces. Solve those pieces and you solve the bigger problem.

It’s option two for me. So, are you part of the problem, or part of the solution?