As long as you’re breathing, you don’t need to lose hope.

Hope has a low setting that almost nobody talks about. Not optimism, not a belief it will work out. Just leaving the door on the latch: keeping the appointment you booked in a better month, not cancelling the thing yet.

That version costs very little, which is rather the point. In a bad stretch the expensive kind isn't affordable, and you aren't required to run it.

Breathing is a deliberately low bar. Some days it's the only condition being met, and it still leaves everything else open.