HOPE

Hope: - good, great, or the greatest of the things ever!!!

It has been a debatable point since ages whether hope or rather being hopeful is good or bad. In my mind though, the picture is crystal clear. For me hope can only be the greatest of the things ever created by the almighty. Hope has been the most relevant of the emotional states that have changed people’s life over the years, for good or for bad! Its people’s perspective that makes hope vary from being an angel in the dark and an evil in the paradise.

Now, the catch lies how people segregate the two most intricately bound words “hope” and “expectation”. Expectation pertains to something called” false hope” which mainly refers to a kind of hope entirely around fantasy or an extreme unlikely outcome. But if hope is understood properly, and idea about it is as clear as a bright sunny day then it is an unbeatable wizard.

In Greek mythology hope is personified as ELPIS. Pandora brought the god’s gift to the mankind called Pandora’s Box, which on the contrary contained all the evils, but the greatest worldly good- hope. For god did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how intensely the other evils tormented him, but rather to go on letting him be tormented again. Thus, he gave mankind hope which can be described by either of the ways, the most evil of evils as it prolongs man’s torment or the greatest gift to the mankind which enlightens the haziest sight and converges all the scattered beams to clearly show the way leading to one’s eternal satisfaction.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never loose the infinite hope” something so meaningful, said by sir Martin Luther King. If the finite disappointment is overlooked, we fail to understand where advents the mistake and if loose the infinite hope we fail to get reconciled and leave behind all the afflictions we had gone through. Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. Hope is the only known possible thing that has no boundaries, no contours. It’s like a bird that flies, flies with no barriers.

We have two ways of living, either die being a pessimist and accept all the contemplations of life or change the vicissitudes but hoping about the betterment and die fighting. Choice is all yours. How you lead a life? Living for an aim or accepting an aimless life, all lies within you. Had freedom fighters never fought the battle they did, would we have lived our lives they way we are?  A certain answer, no, a sorrowful no. there could be 1000 similar instances where the magic of hope has been revealed, not once, not twice but for innumerous times.

all the adages ever quoted about hope give just one conclusion" never say die", just keep hoping". Keep fighting till the point u attain the desired. Remember,” fear can hold u prisoner, hope can set u free”. Even a free man turns a prisoner the moment his hope dies and a prisoner lives life to the fullest if he hopes, even if for the smallest of the things.    Good or bad, life would always show its varying colors, the only thing that makes it bright is " HOPE".