The reason people still go through life is because of the hope of a better tomorrow. Hope is a very strong force that has a way of providing one with the energy required to keep going even in the face of seemingly challenging situation. When the night comes, why we are not bothered is because of the hope of the dawning coming. In the same way, if situations get darkly, as long as your hope is not lost, the situation will definitely improve.
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There is no one as bankrupt and as beaten as the one that has lost the hope that they are trying to build. Here is a depiction of how hope works: I read a story about a man that always shops in a particular shopping mall on his way back from work. Each time he wants to enter the compound, he would park his car at the open space just by the side of the road for the fear that the parking spaces inside may be full.
This continued and the man would walk a long distance to enter the mall and back to his car. At a point, he decided to take a step further and drive all the way in with a hope of finding a parking space inside, and amazingly, he found a free spot just by the door side of the mall. The next day, he also decided to try again and he also found a good spot inside.
He then picked up a paper and started writing the number of times he found a space inside and the number of times he did not. At the end of the month, he was amazed at the result. Majority of the times, there were good packing spaces inside and all these while, he would park outside without hope of finding any. You see, you won't know the good that lies ahead of you if you have lost hope in both the present and the future.
Even when the situations suggest otherwise, you can still hope for a better and positive thing coming up from a seemingly dark situation. The story of Nick Vujicic is a good example of hoping against hope. He was born with neither of the limbs. While he was growing up, he was not happy with the situation and at a point, he wished for his mum to keep him on a table so he would fall off and break his neck an die. However, he had to pick up the fragments of his life and his hope in life got resuscitated.
[One of Nick's motivational videos. From Wagner Santos]
He encouraged himself with the fact that there is still hope for him because there are great abilities even in what seems like disability. Guess what, he has gotten so far in life that he now serves as inspiration for people. This is to let you know that when there is hope, then there is still something to live for.
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