Hope is a Complicated Thing

I think it’s scary to be vulnerable. To let someone else undress your emotions and study the nakedness of your soul, allowing them to see beneath your eyes into the bleeding of your scars. To run so fast into their arms without knowing if you will fall, or fail. To place your trust inside their hands unsure if you will slip between their fingers. But I also think it’s scary to never try. To never give your heart a chance to beat for another. To never fall in love with the possibility that someone unexpected can walk into your life and change it forever. My love language is to create a safe space for my person to take off their armor. And if they aren’t ready or find it too scary, one hopes that tomorrow will be the day.

Hope is a complicated thing. Yes it’s what springs is eternal, it’s what wakes us up in the morning, it’s what keeps us going when we’re crushed, it’s what makes us human.

Hope helps us to ignore the sufferings of the present. When we stay positive about our future, and feel that we have to fight to win the problems, our probability to succeed increases. It happens because we fight. Trying to stay mentally strong and give our best efforts. Hope is a belief. You believe something good will happen. The intensity of this feeling has the ability to change your present or future. It’s said hope is a deep sense hidden in our subconscious mind, and with its help, you can make an impossible, possible, or win a war- even if it’s with yourself.

A true hope or belief is unbreakable. There are many theories regarding the definition of hope. This is because we all have different definitions and thoughts on what hope means to us. Hope can be defined as something that gives you the belief or desire that a specific thing will happen or exist in the future; a feeling of expectation and desire for something desired but not actively present. One such example would be having hope for the survival of life on earth. But the only definition that matters, is yours– what do you believe? If you believe to have something good in the future, and expect it to happen, that is hope. Some would argue that hope is magical thinking. I’d disagree. I define it as manifesting the energy of our desire. Of course action is still needed but hope is the fuel for action otherwise it is just magical thinking. And remember to remind yourself in your staye of vulnerability that hope is always positive. It’s that positivity that makes you a beacon of light and source.

I believe that anyone can have hope for anything no matter what it may be. Hope isn’t something that allows you to feel a certain way about life all the time, but it’s a frame of mind that gives us reason to keep going despite odds against us, despite actions that hurt us and love that has let us down. Hope is one of the most important and powerful emotions that humans experience. Although I believe dogs have always had this 7th sense. You can hear it in Ibis’ excited whines when we get in the car. Maybe we’re going on an adventure? She can always hope. It brings us forward in life, provides anticipation for the future, and makes us feel better about our lives so we don’t spiral into a quagmire of despair. The past can not be revisited, but hope allows us to focus on the present to heal the future. Hope gives meaning to life, it allows us to get an understanding of things we may not have before and trust in the magic of new beginnings.

Hope is something you can’t feel unless there is some kind it perception to it. It’s a state of mind that allows people to achieve things they would never have thought possible or retry failed attempts or shift directions. As Edison said, “I haven’t failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways it wont work.” Hope allows us to overcome obstacles and fears placed before us because we have the belief and the desire that they will end up well in the future. Our world would be much different if mankind had more hope within them.

Hope motivates and encourages us to keep going despite what may happen in our lives. Hope gives inspiration to achieve goals no matter how hard or impossible they may seem. Without hope, we give up, get stuck and live for eternity torturing ourselves with negative thoughts about our lives and current situations. Hope has the ability to get us through. It gives us a reason to wake up and makes us believe that whatever we do, it will lead us to our desire and where we are supposed to be in the world. You are exactly where your are supposed to be.

The essence of hope is sweet. It’s an inspiration to live life the best way we can with vulnerability, intention and integrity. Make your hope strong. It will give you the courage and inspiration to stick to and manifest your dreams, to heal old wounds and heal those you’ve caused as long as you breathe. It’s not THAT complicated.

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