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I have found that paying too much attention to reality is very depressing. Okay? There is a lot not to look forward to on this planet.
People are unreliable. People are inconsistent. People will hurt your feelings. Employment is not very stable. There’s—children do not obey or respect their parents. There are so many reasons to find the unpleasantries on this planet.
And sometimes, when I think of what faith really means—faith is ignoring reality half the time. And so, when I’m giving someone hope, my profession tells me to help people do reality checks. I find that to not be that useful. Okay?
You have to have a reason to live and to do things—it’s not really based on logic.
You know, there’s a group of people that sometimes we feel sorry for—but maybe it’s a bad idea to feel sorry for them—because they’re a little out-of-tune with reality, okay? And they walk around being happy for no logical reason, okay? And we tell ourselves that they’re the ones having an unpleasant experience.
We have some scriptural references for stuff like that, like David on his way to fighting Goliath. Imagine having a “reality chat” with David. Like: “Are you sure? We should check the statistics, the probability of this working out right, okay?” Moses on the way to Egypt to release the Israelites. Nephi starting to build a ship. “You do know this is your first time, right?”
But you know, there’s so many things in the history of the world where, you know, getting a rocket to the moon, you know? Starting a civilization in Salt Lake City, Utah. That was a ridiculous idea. But someone pulled it off.
And so, when it comes to the science of brain chemistry, having something you’re getting excited about does not require it to be logical. And so, hope does not have to be based on something that’s logical. It just has to have a flicker of possibility to it. And then, if you are one of the crazy ones, like Thomas Edison, that really thinks you can create a light bulb—and mathematically speaking, nineteen hundred and ninety nine times, that should convince you it’s not going to work.
So, we have so many examples of history of people defying logic in order to pull off something and that’s why we live—not because it’s enjoyable.