It’s Okay if You’re Not Feeling Hopeful

ZORA Editors
ZORA
Published in
Dec 24, 2020

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The most wonderful time of the year may be looking a little bleak to many of us. It’s okay if you’re not in a holly jolly spirit. you don’t have to feel good all the time.

“Offering hope feels like another burden during an already heavy time,” Simone Keelah Brathwaite writes for ZORA.That is until I realized that hope is not something that can be manufactured. Hope is born out of authenticity, of storytelling, of perseverance. I don’t need to be on any sort of mission to force myself to give the world hope. Instead, what I believe you and I are called to do is to move toward love.”

Read more about her journey toward love below.

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