Hope... A dilemma.....

‘Sometimes we discover in one single lucid moment what we have been looking for throughout our lives. The point is not to destroy ourselves before that moment arrives.’ – Ivan Klima said in his book ‘No Saints or Angels’. I can agree with this statement. In the nutshell, it means, Hope, that, “that” moment would arrive at some point in time.

However, in the second school of thought, a line from a song by GnR says, ‘I’ve been dragging my heels with a bitch called Hope’. I can agree with this too that we live with the hope that things will get better, carry on with our jobs (or anything) because we are not clear about what we exactly want and it just goes on and on.

During our journey, we keep on discovering new things about ourselves out of the blue but in that quest of self- discovery (which I believe is the most important purpose of the existence), does Hope really play a part that hopefully we would find the answer? No. Somewhere Hope makes us lose touch with reality because while hoping things will get better, we lose on the time in which we could have thought of alternative options or actually worked towards a solution.

At the end of the day, we should just work towards what we think we want without the hope that we will get it or the idea that we won’t. I completely realize the meaning of the saying ‘Just work towards the goal without worrying about the outcome’ now.

The concept of keeping Hope is so forcefully inculcated in us since the birth that I am scared to say, ‘Hope is a hopeless thing.’ As far as the saying of Mr. Ivan Klima goes, we should never ever destroy ourselves, be that ‘moment’ is coming or not. On the other hand, I wouldn’t also say that Hope is a bitch because the infrastructure of the society stands on the concept of Hope. Now the infrastructure of society stands on the concept of Faith too which leads to another line of thought, Is Hope synonymous to Faith? Next time…