Let's assume that we are powerless, that there are circumstances that we can't control. But I wonder if there are possible ways to work your best in the perimeter designed by our own limits. I'm just looking into an area of Manchester. A young person I care for has just been beaten and left battling between consciousness and unconsciousness yesterday. That was a circumstance I possibly couldn't control, but I wonder if there are ways now for us youth workers (and human beings) to work with people, with his friends, his family, his community to transform this situation into an unexpected good. The only thing I know in this situation is this longing to see, to taste, to share with people the 'hope' I try to still believe in but that continues to hide itself from me and other fellow humans. Hope wouldn't exist if there wasn't a negative situation you wanted to change, but in circumstances like this I really ask myself what is the point in the hoping: the sense of powerlessness is currently killing hope, but at the same time the longing to see human flourishing makes me restless at the thought of giving this hope up.
