Hoping For, Against Hope

Or so we thought...

Why do we have hope? Is it blind faith?


Nah, let's not get too hasty. Sometimes, when things get a little tough, we resort to something enlightening called 'hope'. What is hope? Obviously, it does not matter, for simple reason of inconvenience. (ie. you could define hope as something worthy of belief, while I on the other hand can say hope is nothing than blind faith)

Somehow, I have an inkling that I had already mentioned this before, about hope not being something we should base our lives upon. If not, well, it's your lucky day, folks, for we are to question the question of hope.

Well, the first would be, "Why hope? Why not some other emotive feeling that can bring the same inspiration as hope?" Actually, right as you are. Hope is broad, subjective and objective. We would want to know why, we have to know what. So what is hope?

Again, it is unlike us to define something out of mere context of a dictionary. To define is to get to the bottom of the very meaning of the existence of something. To do that with hope, is - wow - like trying to search for an oasis in the middle of a desert. There is a possibility, albeit only a small one.

Another essential to hope, is (yes, you guessed it) how. Once more, too-broad-a-subject to be discussed point blank. You can ask, how do we have hope? How to know if we felt hope? How do use hope? How do we escape from the dire consequences of hope? How? How? HOW?!

Right, easy, easy... rest assured, hope is merely a base for almost everything. Imagine, without hope, why would anyone want to make a difference in the world? I probably said it once, which makes it all the cliche, yet important.


"We need hope. Hope, a blind faith, needs us too."

The Apocalyptic Stage

IS coming... but not quite as literal as it perceives to be...

Think your way of anything.

How bad is bad? How down is down? How dead is dead? Why do we measure a particular stage in life as mere downtrodden beings? Is it because there is always fear that an impending apocalypse looming?

Right, we might have gotten ahead of ourselves. There are probably too many ways for us to interpret 'apocalypse'. It depends, of course, on the situation of the moment. What if we tried thinking apocalypse as something great? Bah, that's still not quite precise enough. First and foremost, we have got to be aware of why we have to recognize an apocalypse when we see one.

Simply put, is it down to fear? Is fear what drives up to do the very things we seek to avoid out petty reasons? Just because we are scared of what lies ahead, that doesn't mean we can't do things. Still, do we really have to say, "We all already down and out. So why not come up and strike while the iron is hot?". Hmm, on second thought, maybe not. Or maybe, hell yes!

It depends. It always does. It doesn't matter whether we have all the guts in the world. It's how we use them right? But, sometimes, even the most skeptical have to admit, when it's time for an apocalypse, there's no running away from it.

Pulling Up.

Sometimes, when you are down, you are down, make no mistake. Here's the thing, why do keep telling yourself you're down?

It is because you ARE in fact down and probably out? Or is it because of your self-inflicting feel-sorry-for-yourself attitude? Or maybe, you just haven't asked yourself that, and you're still in denial? Well, it doesn't matter which, but what. You need to know why you're down. Being stuck in the middle really sucks.

Essentially, lets look at the possibilities. Why, of all the things to think about, are you even trying to think that you're down? Wait, before that...

Is it possible for us to abstain from the questions of pessimism and optimism? No, it's not balance we're talking about here. More like, focusing on the best of both worlds. (By worlds, of course, I meant, the positives and the negatives, the good and bad, blah blah blah...)

So, back to the why of the 'down' mentality. The quite-the-opposite question would certainly be, why not find out why we keep thinking we're on the ascending (in other words, not feeling down)? Is it because we're preparing ourselves for the worst possible scenario?

Alright, we do have to realize that these questions rarely do matter unless we take a stand on something. (Cliche, but effective.) So, take a stand.