I've found that reading history gives me hope because at every point in mankind's past, so many people would have had the same fatalism that we have now.Things

I've found that reading history gives me hope because at every point in mankind's past, so many people would have had the same fatalism that we have now.Things have turned out OK after all :-) Second, reading stoicism helps , too. I come from India where we have a similar school of thought which emphasises that the work at hand is the only thing you can control. This helps, too. YMMV