It is easy to become discouraged when we realize how much the past effects the "now". But we can also look at this truth and realize how much the now effects the future. This can give rise to much hope if we let it. The future changes the second we change the now. We create the future we want to see by taking incremental steps to becoming what we want to see in the very moment that we are standing in. Here and Now. So... What are you waiting for?