So, you want to save the world?
Fight the largest windmill? Take the battle to the doom? Be blinded by conviction and shoot your mediocre shot?
No, I will keep my eyes open.
Keep your eyes open as the uncertainties grow? As the landscape becomes more complex and time runs short? From decades to years, from years to months?
Yes.
Do the invisible work, without glory?
Yes.
Do the work without needing the world to know what it owed you?
Yes.
Hold your view unmuddled as the sky turns green, and the people you love keep calling it blue?
Yes.
Keep your eyes open as the storm grows and they start to water, when there’s no calm coming?
Yes.
Withstand the alienation inherent in observing the world as it is, not as we wish it to be?
Yes.
Flee the battle when you see signs of kryptonite?
Yes.
Act with kindness, honour, nobility, even as the stakes ever rise?
Yes.
Hold faith in the weakening candlelight of civilization and sanity as the tides pick up strength?
Yes.
Venture and observe the unknown ground, letting your senses and wit guide you in the dark, as all thorough instruments return ERROR: UNKNOWN TERRITORY?
Yes.
Hold proudly the virtues of a scout even as the troubles reward battle lines?
Yes.
Are you certain?
Never.
You are finally open enough to begin.