It's true that lots of the

It's true that lots of the ills of the world were avoidable, being man-made. Bad plans are invented and implemented daily, but so are good plans and so the battle is drawn. Thus was it always and so shall it always be. No-one can or should command the future, we do our best under the circumstances, and future generations must do the same.

Historians often lament the story of historical figures saying "he didn't live to see his dream come to pass, it was only after his death that..." and a description of the endeavor. But historians may at times wrongly assume a tragic disappointment, some people count the fact that the seed has been planted as enough. We'd all love faster progress or even instant results, but once we know an idea is propagating, that a strategic momentum for change is set in motion, that's a victory we can derive some contentment from.

It will likely take several lifetimes to reach some destinations, it's important to make peace with our limitations and see our life as a journey of small victories, the building blocks of big victories. Who knows how far we'll get, certainly give it full effort, but we make life an unpleasant trial if we're too emotionally invested in reaching a given destination by a given time.