The reality of life oftentimes is absurd and sometimes funny as we tend to be suck up in an unescapable reality one filled with ones and zeros. some call it binary where we only have the negative and positive, the yin and the yang but i just call it hope and expectations.
Life expectations and reality is divided in between these two lines but then not everything is negative and not everything is positive there is a small room of possibilities called the grey area where things are neither white or black. hope functions largely in this area.
whenever we hope we consciously and subconsciously expect but where the irony lies is that we tend to expect the negative results of what we hope for. this is because our mind is wired in a way where it braces us for the impact of a negative outcome that way we won't get disappointed when the outcome becomes the opposite of what is hoped for.
Some religion likens hope to faith while expectations are likened to results. But the reality is that we are actually stuck in a conundrum of what these concept of hope really means. we hear people say hope for the best, hope for the future, hope for this and hope for that but at the end what is hoped for is not what is gotten. The things is that results is not a function of hope but a function of action.
The bible says faith without work is death and further went to say that show me your faith without work and I'll show you my faith by my works. Faith in this context is a synonym for hope and that is to say that hope is not sufficient to get you the desired result but hope backed up by action would give you a result. Science would say for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction.
The English dictionary defined hope as
a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.
In light of the foregoing, hope is a feeling and a desire but this doesn't signifies nor in anyway suggests that the desire becomes the reality.
my idea of hope is more buttressed in @justice007 post themed Hope, A Beautiful thing.
Hope doesn't provide any sort of nutrition to our body but it keeps a man alive. We sleep at night not knowing what may happen but we hope to wake up to a bright beautiful morning with little birds singing. Hope nourishes our soul, it gives purpose, it gives direction. Hope defines a person.
When, eventually, we get what we hoped for, Our strength to hope only gets stronger, we keep on hoping knowing that we will get it.
What do you Hope for? Don't give up keep pushing. There's light at the end of the tunnel and with that light comes Joy.
As individuals we have to marry our hope with our actions in order to achieve the expected result. Though time and chance happens to us all. life is shrewed in a myraid of unexpected realities. We can act and still not get what we expect but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
My people would say it's better you keep trying hoping for the best and than not trying at all and losing out on the rest.
As we go about our various activities for the day, we need to keep on hope and trying to achieve while being expectant.
The future is pregnant with a lot of expectations. Keep the hope alive People
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