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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Wishful idealism, youthful optimism, and a rose-tinted romanticism of the world is a somewhat necessary precondition for ambition, dreams, and ways of life. However, when these ideals get tested in the crucible of reality, the space for naivete is very limited. Oftentimes, there is a rite of passage, with maturity and age, whereby an individual or a collective may abandon a past, perhaps more innocent outlook, in exchange for a more realistic one. That being said, sometimes this realism, if not properly tempered, can produce a type of jaded complacency that can spiral into loneliness, despair, or detachment. The rise of social media, new pandemic variants, and endeavours that tread further and further beyond familiar terrains put our ideas and ideals to the test and ask us to consider and reconsider our realities in the context of both hope and rationality.
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Wishful idealism, youthful optimism, and a rose-tinted romanticism of the world is a somewhat necessary precondition for ambition, dreams, and ways of life. However, when these ideals get tested in the crucible of reality, the space for naivete is very limited. Oftentimes, there is a rite of passage, with maturity and age, whereby an individual or a collective may abandon a past, perhaps more innocent outlook, in exchange for a more realistic one. That being said, sometimes this realism, if not properly tempered, can produce a type of jaded complacency that can spiral into loneliness, despair, or detachment. The rise of social media, new pandemic variants, and endeavours that tread further and further beyond familiar terrains put our ideas and ideals to the test and ask us to consider and reconsider our realities in the context of both hope and rationality.