RE: DEBATING.

The best art, the best music comes from when times are really tough, either on the individual level or the social level. Personally, I think it's a bit of both - sometimes you need everything to be easy so you have the comfort and space to study, reflect, create, muse, process. Sometimes the struggle is so hard that we can't find meaning, can't overcome - we're busy just surviving. I guess it depends what kind of struggle you are talking about - for example, struggling with a problem helps you learn, whereas perhaps struggling to feed yourself or your family, leading to malnourishment, disease and death seems cruel, dehumanising and pointless.

These days, meaning is simpler for me - to be kind to others, to leave a place as good or better than you found it, to breath - that seems good enough for me. I am done with struggling, though it's not done with me.