#seemed like absolute fantasy to most people

my other grounding technique is remembering that the earliest abolitionists & the earliest suffragists had no proof that the world would ever make possible what they fought for and indeed many of them did not live to see it come to pass. and yet they did not succumb to despair so it would be disrespectful to their memory to let it overtake me

#I’ve been thinking about this too #the advances in freedom and human rights that people fought for centuries and decades ago must have #seemed like absolute fantasy to most people #but they fought for those rights anyway #because they wanted a better future