Response

Response: Hope

What is hope? Hope maybe more of a question rather than an answer. People are always so strange in the way they look at the world. Why do people look at the world like they do? Hope seems to protrude through everything we do, but it never seems nailed down to a specific thing. Some people in other parts of the world look like they have no hope. But do they really have hope? If they do why do they hope? Do they hope that their life will somehow turn around and become something that is not so miserable? Do they hope for some kind of savior to save them from the place in which they dwell? Regardless of what your religion or non-religion is, these are questions that seem to be unanswerable.

It is up to what the perception of the beholder is. Do people that view the world from an evolutionary standpoint have hope? Do people who have a god have hope? Is this why they are at each other’s throats constantly?   If you look on the news you see people constantly fighting each other about what is fact and what is fiction. Why can’t we hope to live in peace? If people would stick to what they believe instead of force feeding it through the throats of school children and let the people believe what they want to believe. If people all hope for something, shouldn’t they be helping each other instead of trying to make them choose a side? People are constantly saying that you should believe this or believe that. How do we know what to believe? How do we know what to hope for. Maybe people are at each others throats because they think that it will make the other loose hope and they will win the argument. Do they want to make the other side lose hope? If the human race is hoping for each other to lose hope, why are we even hoping?

But getting away from the religious part of it.  Why is hope so evident in the ones who seem like they should have none? Go into a hospital and people will be full of hope. Why is that? Maybe its because they feel that they can change they feel. Or maybe because they feel like it’s the only option they have. They feel as if they are in control of it and that if they tell their brain that they are hoping to get better it will magically happen.  Can you use hope to cure a disease? Can it be the cure to something that we do not know about? If hope is a cure to a disease, can you measure it? Can you measure if hope is working or not? If you look in cards at the store they say, “I hope you get well soon. Why is that? Is hope some kind of prayer to a god that exists? That is a strange idea to think about. Why do we throw this word around as a way to save face? If you truly cared about them wouldn’t you do more than hope?  Some people just view hope as a way to cope. If there loved one is sick and all they do is hope, they feel as if they are doing all they can. In some cases this maybe true. But in most instances it is not. In most instances they can love the person and care for them. Are those just synonyms with hope?

            People who are sick hope, but what about everyone else. Do people have a choice about hoping for something? Can people not hope?  This is a strange question that doesn’t seem to answer itself. People sometimes say that the world is a hopeless place. Does that mean people in the world do not hope? People all hope for something at one point or anther. If you turn in a paper to a teacher and you hope to get a good grade, is that hope or just some form of well wishing? Or is hope just some form of lust? If people hope to get newest car with the next paycheck, or hope they get a bb gun for Christmas, is that truly hope? Or is it just lust disguised as hope? Hope looks like lust in some cases but it tends not to be viewed as that way.  Could hope just be lust that has a nice ring to it? If that is true then why are we hoping for things to happen? Isn’t that just a form of lusting?  Greed is also synonymous with lust, so if we hope are we just being greedy?

            Why do people even hope in the first place?  Is it a way to escape the real world? Hope gives people that feeling of satisfaction or the feeling that they have mad a difference. Can we hope for bad things? If people are getting bullied at school and they hope they bully will pay for what he has done, is that not a form of bullying itself? Can hope have a negative connotation? Look at the way people phrase hope sometimes “I hope you die,” or “I hope you pay for what you’ve done.” And then something bad does happen. Is that just a product of chance or did your hope magically cast judgment on them. In this case hope seems to have a bad taste right? But is a good thing in the eye of the beholder. Is hope one of those things that is neutral and can be either good or bad?

            Hope can be viewed as a wonderful blessing or a curse. It is the way that the person chooses to view it. Why do we hope? What is hope exactly? Those are questions that people will probably never know. Should people ever lose hope? Can a person hope in a hopeless world? These are two questions that people will have to answer themselves.