Why do you continue to have HOPE in life?

[Anonymous]

Is there something that keeps you secure knowing one day life will be better? You'll be happier..

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

This is my first time being alive.


Oddly enough, remembering that helps things seem a lot better. I’m going to make mistakes, so is everyone else, we’re all learning, we’re all trying to do the best we can at what we do. That gives me hope for better days when I’m down, it gives me a sense of community to just watch strangers go about their lives and know their stories are as intricate and fascinating as my own, it gives me a sense of joy to see animals thriving in land that we built on, I feel a sense of accomplishment seeing plants growing without help and enjoying their fruits knowing that they’re continuing the circle of life. Big pictures can be great to help your problems seem small, but small pictures can help you enjoy things too, provided you know where to look.

[Asker]

Thay was beautifully said. Thank you.💯❣️

[Anonymous]

I don't have hope anymore. I don't mean that in a bad way. I don't need hope. I know things are going to keep getting better. I have an understanding about life now that I didn't always have. Hope sucks. Knowing is so much better. Unfortunately the only way to get to this point is to study. Most people who set New Years resolutions don't achieve them. Why? because they don't actually understand how things happen. If they did, they wouldn't need hope.

[Asker]

Thank you, that's a powerful answer. Knowing it will get better, not just hoping.. because we have to vibrate and believe in order to manifest what we want to be ours.

[Anonymous]

I think hope is a delusion.

There are two kinds of situations in this life: those in which you can affect the outcome, and those you can't. It's it's the former, then doing something to increase the likelyhood of a positive outcome is better than doing nothing, and just hoping it works out.

If it's the latter then hoping for a positive outcome is fruitless, and a waste of time. Time that could be better spent doing literally anything else besides thinking about something you can't change. Either the situation will resolve with the outcome you want, or it won't.

In my experience, hoping invariably leads to disappointment, so it's not only pointless, but it effectively increases said disappointment when things don't work out in your favor.

[Mynameisbobby]

Having been abused when I was a little boy by my older sister and mother then getting adopted by my uncle has given me hope. I live with severe anxiety everyday have had nightmares about the abuse. If I didn't have hope I'd be dead by now. I'm in college now and sometimes I just want to give up but my uncle little brother and my girlfriend keep me going. I'm in counseling and sometimes I feel like the abuse will consume me and I'll just go crazy. Hope is the only thing I have to hold onto in life.

[Anonymous]

Honestly? No. I don't expect it will get better. The best I can really hope for is that it maintains and doesn't get worse. Or that I'll die before it does get worse. My will to live isn't derived from hope, but rather from acceptance.

Life is what it is and it will do what it does. I enjoy the ride, as best as I can. Savor the little moments of fleeting joy and whatever pleasure I can derive. If life does get better, then awesome. I just don't expect it. And if it gets worse, well, it's not forever. I'll die eventually. And I'm ok with that.

[TagUrItM8]

I'll be honest, there are days it's tough for me. For me it's that one friend I have I know has my back through thick and thin. Hell, I got my heart broken by someone I fell for hard who didn't have the same feelings for me. When I told my best friend that I was working on mending fences (person I fell for and I had a falling out, but are now working on mending things and remaining friends), they were like "if this shit happens again, I'm coming out there and I'm kicking ass. I don't care what good things you have to say about this person."

You don't need a lot of friends. What you need are a few close friends that'll help make life a little less bleak.

[Sonorous]

I don't believe hope can ever be fully embodied or realized. I think that hope is a beautiful fairy tale we tell ourselves to help cater to our emotions by simplifying the world.

[Sonorous]

I guess a good way of saying it is that hope will always be mostly blind because it's an anticipatory emotion. And if having hope is mostly blind, feeling a lack of it is a similar thing I feel. Just anticipating/guessing that a path will be bad.

[Asker]

Basically Hope is Dead.

[Sonorous]

Nah I wouldn't say that. I see hope as I see all emotion. A byproduct of the brain. However, when brains cease to be, someone could view hope as being dead. But in my opinion, since time is relative, so long as there's the possibility of anything, nothing is really dead.

[Nikki1989]

Husband, girlfriend, other friends, career, music, pets, social life. I could go on and on.

[slatyb]

I married her.

[Agape93]

I dont