Max Davine's Blog - Posts Tagged "hope"

Indulging in despair becomes such an addiction that we start to believe that hope has to come from somewhere outside of ourselves. In my lines of work, you need hope beyond hope, but where does it come from? What gives a person hope? I've been thinking about it for over a month, I had another answer then, but it was wrong; hope doesn't come from anywhere. Nothing gives a person hope but their own decision to have hope. Like faith in a God, it's what we choose. Can you believe it was once normal for a person to fall in love with another before they had sex? That one hundred years ago men crawled in squalid trenches, believing they were going to survive despite every horrifying, disgusting element and the realization that they were killing each other for no reason? That it was unusual for someone to get drunk before they had the confidence to say hello to someone? Or pay therapists and doctors and God knows what else just feel okay? I'm remembering that, today. That a century ago, men survived the unthinkable because they had hope. They chose hope.