Our individual desire to witness results is often not a crucial part of the collective process of creating meaningful change. Writer and historian Rebecca Solnit shares, “Most victories will be temporary, or incomplete, or compromised in some way… When activists mistake heaven for some goal at which they must arrive, rather than an idea to navigate by, they burn themselves out […].” Contributing most skillfully to things within our individual control is one way we can make progress on those things that remain only in our collective control.

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul