What should I write about right now as Sophie is asleep and I have a moment to myself? I want to talk about "hope". Everybody needs some kind of hope to keep them going, especially when times seem mundane and just plain ordinary, when we lose sight of what we're doing because everything seems to be on autopilot mode. I recently experienced this hope-less valley where I became bored with life and where I felt like I'm stuck.
In a way, hope can seem unrealistic and too futuristic to grasp. Hope feel like a childhood dream that will never come true. So why do we hope? I think God not only give us the ability to store memories in our brain where we look to the past to either savor the sweetness of it or to learn from our mistakes and become wiser, but we also have the ability to look forward into the future and to hope. Hope is what keeps everyone going. The hope that tomorrow will be better, the hope that the current situation will change and improve, the hope that in time, some things will finally begin to happen, etc.
Without hope, what's the purpose of living on a day longer? Like my friend who ended his own life recently, he must have felt hopeless in every way.
I hope for many things, and I want to be happy and positive while in waiting. May God grant me the patience too!
I hope that for my future, I will be able to influence people in ways that will give them more hopes and more dreams and thus more positive outlooks towards life!
