The World Cannot Be Good Enough for All, and Neither Can I

    Bad things have happened, are happening, and will happen. And that is just me and my family.

    Reading up on J.D. Salinger, we see a lot of pain and suffering. He went through a lot in England, France, Luxembourg, and Germany. It went from bad to worse. He survived physically, but mentally and emotionally, or spiritually, he was very much damaged. But we were the bad guys; we made it back to fight for another day. Most of the millions of troops made it home. Around 400,000 did not. Many stories of woe and sadness.

    Many of those who fought went through too much. Europe, Africa, the South Pacific, into the Philippines and Japan. 

    

    The civilians of those battle-reft lands were savaged and brutalized, and suffered so much. Maybe the Russians never healed enough; perhaps they fight into Ukraine because of those unhealed wounds from generations past. Not just the Great War, World War II, against the forces of Hitler and the Germans, but past wars, and even more recent. Like Afghanistan. They lost four or five times more than our coalition troops in less than half the years.

    The land where empires fall. Hard to change, even in the 21st century.

    Me, I did okay there. I survived, and sometimes thrived there. We were fortunate, most of us. Some were killed, maimed, and wounded. It was a war.

    But, we hold out hope for them and us. We can be okay enough, even excel, to greater heights.

    We have to overcome the challenges and setbacks.