Of course they are. In spite of that "you are watching a movie" idea this is still real life, not a movie. Real life has plots that take decades, or generations, to develop and unfold before you can get to any kind of "happily ever after", and life doesn't stop there either, it just keeps moving. And if you want to be among the winners, that is what you need to prepare for. Never stopping working, never stopping fighting, never stopping watching. You may be able to have some sort of "holidays", some years or decades when it looks like you won, or some years or decades when it looks like there isn't much you can do right now, at least nothing that would have any immediate effect.
But in the latter case you just do what you can, even if seems not to have any real effect.
But in situations like this, when some battles have actually been won, but the war is ongoing - NEVER give up when it's like this, if too many on your side do you are certain to lose. Especially in situations like this you really, really need to do everything you can to keep up that fighting spirit. Do not kick a potential victory to the curb just because we are "not there yet".
Referring to movies, maybe we are getting close to that ending of that Stephen King based movie the Mist, where the main character is preparing to shoot his son and the two other people in the car when their car stops in the middle of the mist that hides monsters and he loses his hope, but right after he does that the mist actually starts to clear and he sees the army vehicles passing by, filled with survivors or refugees?
We may still be surrounded by the mist, and there still are monsters hiding in it, but because of the mist we do not know what everything else might be happening, we have just heard some shooting, and have heard, in the radio, of some wins happening. But right now what a lot of us can do is mainly keeping our spirits up. And waiting.
Of course they are. In spite of that "you are watching a movie" idea this is still real life, not a movie. Real life has plots that take decades, or generations, to develop and unfold before you can get to any kind of "happily ever after", and life doesn't stop there either, it just keeps moving. And if you want to be among the winners, that is what you need to prepare for. Never stopping working, never stopping fighting, never stopping watching. You may be able to have some sort of "holidays", some years or decades when it looks like you won, or some years or decades when it looks like there isn't much you can do right now, at least nothing that would have any immediate effect.
But in the latter case you just do what you can, even if seems not to have any real effect.
But in situations like this, when some battles have actually been won, but the war is ongoing - NEVER give up when it's like this, if too many on your side do you are certain to lose. Especially in situations like this you really, really need to do everything you can to keep up that fighting spirit. Do not kick a potential victory to the curb just because we are "not there yet".
Referring to movies, maybe we are getting close to that ending of that Stephen King based movie the Mist, where the main character is preparing to shoot his son and the two other people in the car when their car stops in the middle of the mist that hides monsters and he loses his hope, but right after he does that the mist actually starts to clear and he sees the army vehicles passing by, filled with survivors or refugees?
We may still be surrounded by the mist, and there still are monsters hiding in it, but because of the mist we do not know what everything else might be happening, we have just heard some shooting, and have heard, in the radio, of some wins happening. But right now what a lot of us can do is mainly keeping our spirits up. And waiting.