Your Editor On Joy

They say that Marines are equivalent to twice as many infantry, that Spartans held against thousandfold odds, and that men in defence of a homeland cannot be defeated.

Apathy cedes to passion in all endeavors. In conflict, in business, in love. Match your battles with your desires and forever dance on the tail of the curve.

And what is your desire? What is worth the battle? All but the basest desires are weak without purpose.

Existential depression visits purposeless children too keen to sleep – to simply be is not enough. Yet, those children persist. Become purposeless adults. Did notions of universality come to them too young, and as they grew, uncover as too subjective the absolutes? In God’s absence, order is a poor father figure.

Is faith a prerequisite of desire persued and fulfilled, of joy?