To hope is more trying than most people will allow themselves to believe. When you've lost the very foundations of that which brings you hope in your most difficult times, hoping for a sliver of light, hoping for a window of escape and hope for a more secure tomorrow can be challenging to say the least. Hope however, fails us sometimes. Human as we are, our self pitying, wasteful and wanting natures tend to push us deeper into the secluded pits of our minds, where darkness engulfs. Everyone's been there. Some of us have hit the bottom of that seemingly bottomless pit, and some of us have managed, somehow, to hang to the frayed rims by our nails.
But this note is on Hope. Not a noun, but as a verb. To hope. To wish for a better, brighter day is to hope that things will become better. To be grateful for our every working cell, for every functioning sense and for the fact that someone somewhere is looking out for us, is reassuring to say the least. But more than that, it's the feeling of hope that this shall continue, that keeps us moving.
If you're nauseated by the optimism, or forced hopefulness that these words are pushing you toward, I suggest you stop reading now.
Aren't you proof of hope itself? Isn't it a miracle that you were brought here by some hope? So what, if that initial hope falls out? Aren't you supposed to have your own hopes? Isn't that what the purpose of life is supposed to be? Life = Hope = Happiness = Life.
Is it any wonder then, why breaking a person's hope of a better life sells so brilliantly in popular culture?
But this note is on Hope. Not a noun, but as a verb. To hope. To wish for a better, brighter day is to hope that things will become better. To be grateful for our every working cell, for every functioning sense and for the fact that someone somewhere is looking out for us, is reassuring to say the least. But more than that, it's the feeling of hope that this shall continue, that keeps us moving.
If you're nauseated by the optimism, or forced hopefulness that these words are pushing you toward, I suggest you stop reading now.
Aren't you proof of hope itself? Isn't it a miracle that you were brought here by some hope? So what, if that initial hope falls out? Aren't you supposed to have your own hopes? Isn't that what the purpose of life is supposed to be? Life = Hope = Happiness = Life.
Is it any wonder then, why breaking a person's hope of a better life sells so brilliantly in popular culture?
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