iHope

 Hope:
The feeling that what is wanted can be had, or that events will turn out for the best. (Dictionary.com)

If you are alive right now, breathing, walking and talking, it’s because you hope. Even if your life is a shit-fest at the moment, nothing is going right, everyone around is succeeding while you keep failing or your life seems stagnant, the fact that you made an effort to swing your legs out of bed this morning shows that you hope.

You hope. Through suffering, rejections, unfairness, that things will get better. 

You hope. Through hardships, bleakness, sense or worthlessness, that things will get
better.

You hope.  When the world keeps winning and you keep losing, when others
undeservingly achieve what you desire. Even when hope itself gives no hope, you hope that things will get better.

Hope is positive. Hope is that small speck of light that keeps you going when you just want to say “to hell with this!” Hope is faith. Hope is belief. Hope is living.

What happens when we stop hoping? There’s no more to life, there’s no reason to breathe.

Hopelessness…
A few days ago, someone I’ve only ever spoken to about once or twice, who’s not a relative or even a close friend phoned me to say, “I’m so stressed, so fed up of this life, of nothing getting better, nothing going my way that, I swear to God, many times I contemplate hanging myself and leaving my kids behind. I’m tired. I’m so very tired.” 

That, my friend, is loss of hope. When hope stops happening, life stops happening.

If you don’t have a goal, a dream, something to look forward to in life, how can you say you live? That you hope? What exactly do you hope for, then? What is your purpose for rising in the morning? 
 
If you want to stay alive in hope, ask yourself the question: Who or what am I putting my hope in? 

Hope in yourself. Because you are the only one you can control. Your life is the only thing you can control. When you hope and believe in yourself, pair it with hard work, and then comes success. Most of all, hope in God. People will fail us, and things/ideas may not live up to our expectations. 
 
Hope is vital for a happy and healthy living. Never, ever, ever give up. As long as you have life, you have everything.


Here’s a song I listen to uplift my spirit whenever my hope candle starts melting.