I know how you feel. It seems so natural to sink into despair when you think of the scale of the challenges we of the awakening community face. For what it's worth, this is how I deal with it.

I am generally able to maintain a healthy degree of optimism and good cheer because from my point of view, we are indeed consciousness having a physical experience.

The implications of consciousness being the foundation of reality are far greater than most appear able to appreciate (at least, that's how it seems to me).

The experiential Tomorrows of each and every one of us are like a vast ocean in front of us, but we are the Captains of our own vessel. The waters we will sail into tomorrow (to continue the metaphor) are entirely dependent on our sense of the possible, today.

For example, if I am only able to seriously entertain the possibility of there being one physical Earth, which is heading uni-dimensionally into the future at a vector set by the collective conscious frequencies of all 7-odd billion of us, then I can only move forward within the parameters of that vector allowed by my imagination.

In other words, my steering wheel is jammed. I am unable to navigate the full range of potential destinations on the map of reality. Furthermore, the buffeting winds created by the feelings and actions of 7 billion other human beings are apt to blow my vessel wherever those feelings and actions are bound to lead.

In the vast majority of cases, nowhere good.

If, however, I have learned a degree of mastery over the rudder of my thoughts and the sails of my emotions, I can harness those elemental forces (regardless of their source, over which I have no control) to navigate myself into a favourable Tomorrow.

Other Captains of other ships will end up perceiving and experiencing the waters of other Tomorrows - other Earths - according to their own skill and mastery over their respective rudders and sails.

What this means in practical terms is: a bad sailor blames the weather for where his vessel ends up. The better we learn to steer our thoughts and handle our emotions, the more of a chance we give ourselves - individually - to navigate our way towards a better Tomorrow; a better Earth.

Every life is its own timeline. As long as we focus on our own game, keep showing and living by example in the truth that we are more powerful by far than we have ever been led to believe by any orthodox State-accredited or religious mentor (with a very few honourable exceptions, of course), our fate will never be the fate of those who despair.

As John Lennon once said: “Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”

To put it another way: It isn't the end until you give up.

If you haven't given up, it isn't the end. :)