This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Every era looks like the wrong one to be living in, and every generation has said so. The condition at the end is where the weight sits: the quality of the moment depends on what gets done with it, not on the moment itself. That is not a claim that all periods are equally kind, since some are plainly harder than others. It is a claim about where your attention should go when you catch yourself wishing you had been born elsewhere.

Instead of cataloguing what is wrong with now, name one thing this particular period makes possible that another would not. Then use it.