How To Keep Hopeful When Things Around Seem Hopeless
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The new year promised new possibilities.
The end of the pandemic, the beginning of new relationships, the realization of dreams and so the list continues.
If you are reading this, it could be that you are trying to keep hopeful. We all are trying to keep hopeful.
The pandemic has disrupted the world.
Not isolated states, provinces or countries, but the entire world and so as 2021 rolled to a close. Hope was the silent word on many persons lips as they welcomed 2022.
Hope is what has brought us so far and so the possibility of hope to carry us to a brighter more optimistic look is what many of us would have stepped into 2022 with.
However, for many of us it hasn’t started out as hopeful as we wished. There may have been more deaths, more losses, more bad news and more of the things overall we hoped to see less of, if not at all.
Last week I was awakened on Monday morning to the death of my dear and closest friend, the unexpected and abrupt departure from this earth shocked her family and friends. She wasn’t sick or infected with Covid. As I reached out for support, I recognized that people had many stories of grief that travelled into 2022.
Persons spoke of losing husbands, wives, siblings, and other relatives and friends. In a space of one day, I spoke with at least six persons who collectively had lost eighteen persons. This was just in my sphere of operation.
As I listened to their stories and saw the pain, the grief, the uncertainty about how they could move pass this pain, I realized that the only possible answer was hope.
Hope not necessarily that the next day will be better, but hope that eventually at some point it will be better.
When there are no words that can express the magnitude of empathy for others loss, the only way to keep going is by hoping.
Hoping in no way is negating or ignoring the distress, but it is finding a positive and optimistic side that somewhere in the future it will be better. Questioning at times just adds to the loss and leads to further sense of not making sense of this world. Hope offers the belief that a better tomorrow will be possible.
Hope believes that though you don’t understand and may not ever understand, you can get up and go again and enjoy that you are still here on the earth to complete your purpose.
Hope makes you be able to smile with pleasant memories of the person you have lost.
Hope makes you dream again and start the business that you have always wanted to start but couldn’t because of your long hours of work.
Hope can bring dreams alive, move you more into your purpose, move out things and persons who may have been holding you back and transport you into a future you didn’t even imagine possible.
Hope can be the source of encouraging another who is feeling hopeless and not sure how to continue.
It offers the opportunity to be able to get up, to go on and to use the loss to create a better life for those of us who remain on this earth. To cherish others, to live and create great memories.
Today if you feel hopeless, I encourage you not to give up, it may not get better tomorrow or the next day, but eventually it will.
Keep hope alive and keep living.
