Some may say being hopeful is having having expectations and when that expectation doesn't come to play, one loses hope, becomes weak and tend not to have faith in other aspects of one's life. Well, hope is not having expectations except you don't know what being hopeful is.
My younger sister named Hope once told me something: Not that I want our family to expect so much from me but I want my name to have an effect in whatever I'm doing and our family's future by giving hope and being hopeful about everything.
Well, I do think that hope is something that no human will say he or she haven't had once in his or her life... Being hopeful can be automatic, we find ourselves building hope every single time like:
- Hoping to see another sunrise
- Hoping to have our meals no matter how little
- Hoping for a better tomorrow without being sure of what tomorrow holds for us.
So, my definition of Hope would be
An inbuilt character of humans to want something or have something to lean on without having high expectations.
Why do we need to Hope?
I believe if one loses hope in life, fear creeps in, dreams may die and one may live an unworthy life because one may feel life has nothing to offer anymore. A hopeless person is like a dead person so we must hope even for little things like being alive to see a new day.
@olawalium said something in his post titled Hope - When Your World Falls Apart
Hope comes as a little thing
That brings your fears to the melting point
Revive our dying dreams and becomes a pillar we can lean on
I specially love the last line "Hope becomes a pillar we can lean on" You don't have to hopeful on man or on things... You've got to have hope on the Almighty and yourself. Be mindful of how your future should be and how it is now. You being hopeful to having a bright future is not giving high expectations like hoping to have the impossible. Just have the Almighty and yourself to lean on... That's hope.
Hope And Wishes
They aren't same but they're connected. Hope can be given to oneself, to a fellow man and to our creator but saying a wish is like making a request to an unknown, you wish for things to happen and find yourself hoping for it to come to pass... That's hope with expectations.
Be hopeful but have no high expectations, just have God and yourself to lean on.
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