Hope is something that is essential in our daily lives whether we realize it or not. Hope gives us the strength to face the future even when the present (or sometimes the past) is rubbish. Whether it is looking forward to the weekend or pay day, it focuses our attention on other things than the rubbish day we are having and to forget about the past once we have arrived at the place of hope.
We constantly hope for better things because it's the things that we wish to possess, be it material goods or a lifestyle. We want more money, we want happiness, we want contentment, we want a partner, we want to try new things, visit new places, experience different cultures. I would dare say that no one of a sound mind has never hoped for something because we all want whether it is a saviour or an extra zero on your annual salary.
For some people, they hope not just because they want it but also because to see that some good things has to happen even when they have failed to retain those good things. In other words, some form of sanity check, that some form of the understanding of the world is right again. We fail many times over the course of our history, some more severe than others. When we fail badly and see others on the brink of success, we wish that they would succeed not just because it is the right/nice thing to do but also for us to hope against all hope, that we too may find that success someday. Even this is a pretty hard thing to do. Hope is usually never an easy thing to do because we are surrendering ourselves to (presumably) uncertain future in which we have little control of. Hope that others find success when you have not requires some level of humility. But perhaps the hardest thing about this kind of hope is that you may not get that success ever. It may be that you will have your successes elsewhere, just not this particular one. While we might have to resign to this fact at some point, to hope against all hope does make us feel better for the time being. Perhaps that's all we really need to get up and keep going. Perhaps that is what matters.
I saw this drummer at a really nice restaurant and on his bass drum had these words printed on it "Hold to the now where the future plunges into the past". If this was true, there would be no use for hope. We wouldn't want to wish for better things in the future because now is about as good as it gets. Depressing isn't it? While it is probably written as a means to forget our troubles but reality is that this would be just plain ignorance. Nothing truly good can come out of being in a state where we live for the now.
It's actually a good thing to hope even if you think it is for the weak, a crutch. I think hope is one of those things where emotion and intellect meld into one. It expresses human-ness probably more than anything. So keep hoping but on one condition. Hope for the right things.
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