First of all, WHAT IS HOPE?
In my country we have this phrase: hope is mother of the stupid people.
“Hope, but never expect. Look forward, but never wait”.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope”. – M.Luther King Jr.
“It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things”. Maxime Legace
“Hope is an embrace of the unknown”. Rebecca Solnit.
AND MY FAVORITE QUOTE: ”Hope is a double-edged sword. Use it and you’ll suffer until you reach your goal. Don’t use it you’ll fall into despair.” Maxime Lagace.
Personally I don’t have a negative look at hope. This is a thing which we seek when we have no faith or we don’t see a meaning. Hope comes when we want things to go in our way. Hope is like a rescue boat from the bad thoughts. In the same time hope is an illusion. A dream which never comes to the truth.
Would it be easier to live without a hope?
I don’t think so. We need it every time.
Let’s take an example – old men who is sick. He has no faith that he might recover while his family have a hope. They pray and believe that everything will be alright. And finally old men recovers. But sometimes happens the opposite thing. Sadly.
I think that you need to trust in hope when it is the last thing you can do. Because sometimes hope shows that person doesn’t trust in themselves and their abilities. So it’s best to believe in yourself. Don’t lose a faith. Then you won’t have to ask hope help. But. If you have nothing to believe in, and no one helps you, even your own thoughts – hope is must.
From my experience I can tell that hope is not my friend. Doesn’t matter how much I hope for exact things, happens otherwise. Especially, hope doesn’t work when you need something from other person. But I always imagine how others should act or behave and that just doesn’t work. If to be honest, I don’t get people, everyone is a big mystery for me. Even, if I think that I know person quite well something happens that it makes me feel shocked.
Hope can also bring a negative energy. Because while we expect, we make ourselves suffer. That is so funny that we ourselves make that misery. For instance, we expect good score but we get pretty bad. So much disappointment. We hope that we reach something but we get unlucky. Then we eat ourselves from the inside.
So hope loves tricks. Or maybe we just love to trick ourselves? We create a story and we hope things to happen. Maybe this is how we run from the reality…
Hope is fine when we see a crossroad in front of us. Hope gives us a wish to live and believe. Hope helps us to find a meaning. Many times because of a hope I’m where I’m. But at that times hope comes in some kind of shape. Like person, thought or a creation. Something gives us a meaning and then we take it to hang on for the future.
Hope is like a cure. You must to use it according to recommendations and instructions. You just need to know how to use this cure and when you don’t need it. Overdose brings hallucinations, or in the other words – illusions. Illusions that some person will act somehow or make something: propose, ask to be in relationship, help, give an advice and etc. Unfortunately, this is not how it works. And if something happens not the way we hoped for, we should definitely give more attention to that person in order to know his nature.
Hope is not a good or bad. We give it some kind of meaning relaying on our own experiences.
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