08-16-2010, 12:00 AM
Hope is not wishful thinking coming from a desperate emotional state, nor it's telling yourself that it's all going to be OK while you anxiously struggle in your everyday life affairs.
Hope is a heart-felt notion that there are good thing out there, waiting for you. That there is joyful and pleasant things to find.
It's a sign of a healthy heart that hasn't known the ugly side of being alive.
The problem is that if a person gets enough punches in life, hope becomes something to disbelieve in, something that is unreasonable and useless, an indulgence.
As reasonable as that sounds in one's head, the fact is that if your heart has nothing to look forward to your will to live diminishes drammatically. There are no interests in large endevours and you tend to be in general terribly afraid of loosing whatever you have going on for yourself.
My recommendation for this matter is taoistic in Spirit: Accept hope... leave room for it in. Don't reject it. Clear the heavy emotional history... go back to the original state, for without hope, you wouldn't last long in this world.
Babies that are left alone for too long, for instance, who don't recieve caring, human contact and affection simply stop wanting to live and die. If we reached a certain age, it means that, at some point, we had things to look forward. Don't close yourself to such possibilities in the name of good reason and bad experiences. You are only choking yourself to death.
Hope is a heart-felt notion that there are good thing out there, waiting for you. That there is joyful and pleasant things to find.
It's a sign of a healthy heart that hasn't known the ugly side of being alive.
The problem is that if a person gets enough punches in life, hope becomes something to disbelieve in, something that is unreasonable and useless, an indulgence.
As reasonable as that sounds in one's head, the fact is that if your heart has nothing to look forward to your will to live diminishes drammatically. There are no interests in large endevours and you tend to be in general terribly afraid of loosing whatever you have going on for yourself.
My recommendation for this matter is taoistic in Spirit: Accept hope... leave room for it in. Don't reject it. Clear the heavy emotional history... go back to the original state, for without hope, you wouldn't last long in this world.
Babies that are left alone for too long, for instance, who don't recieve caring, human contact and affection simply stop wanting to live and die. If we reached a certain age, it means that, at some point, we had things to look forward. Don't close yourself to such possibilities in the name of good reason and bad experiences. You are only choking yourself to death.