Hope, you see is one of the most beautiful human ideals that is so powerful some may mistaken it as fantasy and others believe it to be a miracle. A gift from God.
False hope is betting your life on destiny or fate and blaming a higher being for your crappy situation. It's easy to play the victim card and blame others for your misery. These people think that hope is some sort of magical spell and that by saying the magic word everything they hope for will happen without having to put an ounce of effort to make it happen. This false hope feeds on a system of power and oppression. We allow the bad things to happen because we expect some external force to come to our aide and fix everything. We appear weak and vulnerable because we have already given up on ourselves.
Most people rely on hope for things they say are out of their control. Hoping someone reciprocates your feelings, hoping someone recovers from a fatal injury, hoping civil wars and unrest will subside, hoping everything will be okay. It's not like these things can happen overnight, but it's also not impossible that one day it can. and that's why we hope. We hope because there is a 1% probability. We hope because we don't want to regret that we turned our backs and ran the other way when times were hard, we don't want to regret that we didn't even try. In the darkest moments of our lives, we cry out in desperation for the strength to continue to fight, for a reason to persevere, endure, and overcome our sufferings.
Real hope is doing everything and anything to make it happen while trusting that your intentions are good. It is showing how much you really care about someone without any expectations. It is fighting for a cause you dedicate your life to no matter how many people tell you that you're wasting your time. It is standing up to what you believe in even if it makes you a crazy person. These people are strong and courageous because they are selfless and fueled with loyalty. Real hope is a genuine desire that motivates you to never give up.
And when you try your hardest and fall flat on your face, depression and anxiety hoovers over you and you're overwhelmed with self hatred and pessimism. We try our hardest to shelter ourselves by ignoring the part of us that is hurting. but with hope we are able to bare our pain with no shame. With hope even if we failed, we still believe that it can get better. Hope is a realistic sense of optimism - do not only depend on good karma or luck to achieve your goals, but also believe that you are doing the best you can.
Humans feel many things all at once. Some days we are in love, other days we are filled with sadness. To feel so deeply. To loose yourself in someone. Is exhausting. The feelings of brokenness, despair, humiliation can turn your world upside down and some days it's gonna be so hard for you to find the light but don't you dare shut down, you better believe you are loved by family & friends. God loves you so much! so please have hope that better days are to come.
To my readers <3,
sending you a piece of my heart
