HOPE... I guess is an outcome of a marketing genius. U can sell it to almost anyone and everyone is ready to but it for a certain price. We plan for so many great things in life. We expect spectacular outcomes and dramatic courses. But life hardly gives us that. We live in doubt, darkness and to sum it all – HOPE!
Once I heard of a man very sure about the future. He was so confident that he was ready to bet his entire fortune for it. I was flummoxed… can someone be so sure? So I dug deep into him. I observed his thoughts, actions and eyes. They say eyes don’t lie. I say then, maybe your eyes lied. Complete confidence, I say, is complete foolishness. This man though sure of himself and the outcome was ignorant of the truth. With truth I mean facts. So then you get it-
EXPECTED RESULTS – FACTS = HOPE
This man hoped that his confidence in the outcome was true. So strong was his hope that he was blind towards truth. We mistake hope of a stronger degree to be confidence.
Hope is a tool that helps you love someone, they say – “Sometimes you love with nothing but hope.” Well...many of my friends would agree with that. Their can be only two possibility in love, either you get the prize or you HOPE to get it. The latter again is a peril that hope helps us live through. A famous movie mentioned very interestingly...”Hope is nothing but a coherence of anomalies of the human brain that makes us strong and the reason of our weakness at the same time.” (Guess What!)
So is hope nothing but an artificial haven for us to hide from our fears, then why can’t we understand it and just face reality? As it may sound as a good question, it can be labeled as an inappropriate one. A better way to ask it would be...“Why do we hope?” Ever heard of the story of the hare and the tortoise? Well I’m sure you have. Suppose you didn’t know the story and I tell you that the race has just started. With that I also tell you that the poor tortoise is weak, slow and will surely loose, and the hare is shrewd, fast and will win. You will say given the facts, the hare will win. But at the back of your mind you would want the little tort to win! Why! Well there is a saying...”In a sport the weak is always the favorite!” And not just because of that. One of the most drastic effects of the future on us is that its uncertainties make us weak, not from the outside, but the inside. Inside all of us is a tort that is weak and slow to respond to the manifestations of the future. We pray and hope to win this race and we hope….But there is a catch. Like the tort of our story, we will have to run the race. Yes, just sitting on the sidelines and hoping for things to change will just make matters worse.
In the end it can be said that hope is although a weapon for the weak, it is also the strength and guiding spirit for those who use in the best fashion. I HOPE you got the point J
