It’s time to renew that old feeling of hope, implying that something good will happen in the middle of all the negativity we need to face and deal with in the present moment. Hope is always there, and we need to not let that flame vanish from who we really are. Buddha, the enlightened one, taught us about getting detached from our ego, which may imply removing the idea of the self from the equation of life, getting totally integrated into the universe itself, a bigger and wider view of promoting and caring about life that we can use to extend the perspective of looking into a given moment or situation we’re experiencing. However, I personally find more tractable and sound to see and interpret the need to remove the idea of the self as taking into consideration what happens in the universe and in the surroundings to characterise and understand the position and the contributions of the current self to the whole instead of establishing a rigid priority order where the whole always c...