Hope
Saying “I hope tomorrow will be better” is so much different than “I will make tomorrow better.” This is the hope that we see most though. It’s the hope that has us yearning for warm, sunny days in the dead of winter. It’s the hope that this pain will go away. It’s the hope that comes without the burden of responsibility. This is not the hope I have. I have the second kind of hope.
I know that nicer days will come. I know that all pain will subside. Because I know this, I can actively work towards ensuring that each day is better than the last. This type of hope has little to do with the universe aligning just right and everything to do with us. It comes only when we realize that our actions can change our future.
For many this can be hard to realize. It’s so much easier to hope and pray that things will turn around. When we put our hopes in the hands of the universe, God or whatever it is that you believe, then the pressure is off of us. If things don’t look up, then it’s not our fault. We have excuses instead. The timing wasn’t right or this just wasn’t meant to be are very common ones. We hear these daily and never really think much of them. They’ve become the normal thing to say and, while this is the wrong mentality, the world enables it. There are more people with this mindset than not and so it floods our minds.
When we take ownership of our actions, our hope for the future can be brighter. We know that nothing is going to happen by sitting around just hoping. That hole needs to have some kind of driving force behind it. This type of hope has nothing to do with luck. Instead, it has to do with getting back up. No matter how many times we get knocked down, no matter how dark the skies may be, there is always hope if we just work for it.
