Nothing’s over until it’s over. And there are no guarantees.

That’s not how life works.

Thinking like that is paralyzing, and therefore worthless.

Your choice is simple, and I’ll give it to you from We Bought A Zoo. (Since we’ve established entertainment as a vehicle to making a point).

20 seconds of courage. The movie was talking about getting up the courage to talk to a girl but it applies to almost anything in life, even politics.

You have to wrap your mind around the idea that failure is inevitable in life but you don’t know what will fail and what will succeed until you try. So, you figure out what you want, you decide to go after it, and you muster all your courage and determination into it. You give it every hope and chance and prayer to succeed. Because that’s what you want. And, more importantly, that’s who you are.

Maybe you fail.

Maybe you succeed.

That’s what I’d tell catastrophic Democrats. If you try, you may still lose. If you don’t try, you may still win. Better to try and lose than be complacent or not show up in the first place. We all decide who we want to be and how we want to handle life. There’s a poignant line in The Count of Monte Cristo that talks about that too.

And hey, I’m not trying to come off like I have all the answers here. It’s always a whole lot easier to talk the talk than it is to walk the walk. We don’t always have the means or the energy to. We get stuck. But you do what you can, when you can and trust in others to push forward too.