I'm not sure that I'll see or hear or read a more affirmative thing in the however many hours I have left to roam the internet. This is extraordinary. We love you too, Nick Cave.
“It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.” ― Samwise Gamgee(J.R.R. Tolkien)
"Dear Valerio -- much of my early life was spent holding the world and the people in it in contempt. It was a position both seductive and indulgent. The truth is, I was young and had no idea what was coming down the line. It took a devastation to teach me the preciousness of life and the essential goodness of the people in it. It took a devastation to reveal the precariousness of the world, of its very soul, and to understand that the world was crying out for help. It took a devastation to understand the idea of mortal value. It took a devastation to find hope. Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on earth. HOPEFULNESS IS NOT A NEUTRAL POSITION. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive and loving act, as small as you like -- such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes -- keeps the Devil down in the hole. It says the world and its inhabitants have value and are worth defending. It says the world is worth believing in. In time we come to find that this is so. Love, Nick"
I would lke to JOKINGLY add -- also do not let your little boy listen to Nick Cave records until adulthood. Just sayin' -- "Murder Ballads" ain't exactly hopeful nursery rhymes.
I'm not sure that I'll see or hear or read a more affirmative thing in the however many hours I have left to roam the internet. This is extraordinary. We love you too, Nick Cave.
“It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
― Samwise Gamgee(J.R.R. Tolkien)
Thank you for posting this. This is what I've been needing to hear for long time.
Love!
Beautiful.
Is there a transript somewhere to be found?
"Dear Valerio -- much of my early life was spent holding the world and the people in it in contempt. It was a position both seductive and indulgent. The truth is, I was young and had no idea what was coming down the line.
It took a devastation to teach me the preciousness of life and the essential goodness of the people in it.
It took a devastation to reveal the precariousness of the world, of its very soul, and to understand that the world was crying out for help.
It took a devastation to understand the idea of mortal value.
It took a devastation to find hope.
Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on earth.
HOPEFULNESS IS NOT A NEUTRAL POSITION. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive and loving act, as small as you like -- such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes -- keeps the Devil down in the hole. It says the world and its inhabitants have value and are worth defending.
It says the world is worth believing in.
In time we come to find that this is so.
Love, Nick"
@@coreydubrowa2498 thank you so much!
@@coreydubrowa2498 Much appreciated!!!! Thank you. These are words I didn't know I needed. Love Nick Cave!
I would lke to JOKINGLY add -- also do not let your little boy listen to Nick Cave records until adulthood. Just sayin' -- "Murder Ballads" ain't exactly hopeful nursery rhymes.
Ha! Too true.
Nick Cave - you are the kind of MAN the world needs. 🙏