Help your readers abandon hopelessness with good stories

I liked this quote from a substack I read:
“Abandon hopelessness. Dream for one mad moment that the grass is green. You see what’s going on here. Chesterton is inviting us to open our eyes to reality. He is inviting us to be disenchanted from our disenchantment.” (emphasis mine)

Good stories can do this. Writers, the work is worth it — good stories can touch hearts and minds in ways nothing else can — even if it is only one heart or one mind you reach.