Puts me in mind of a few choice words.
Momentum. Another significant and very invisible force in our lives. A "strength or force gained by motion or by a series of events."
Pragmatism: "a practical approach to problems and affairs."
Optimism: "a doctrine that this world is the best possible world... an inclination to put the most favorable construction upon actions and events or to anticipate the best possible outcome."
Tim Walz quoting the r&r desperado Warren Zevon - "We'll sleep when we're dead." Warms my heart, indeed.
