Kindred,
Hope, infinite hope, is something that must never be
lost *.
Life can pummel you with endless disappointments, you
can reach the depths of hell and heartbreak, pain upon suffering, suffering
upon pain, swallowed you up in despair and misery, but you must never lose hope.
How? How to not lose it when in the mist of great
disappointments and hell?
When I looked up the definition of hope, I was
surprised to find it described as merely a desire, a desire for fulfillment or
success. It is listed as a wish, a want,
but not as a need.
When something is a want and not a need, it implies
that you can do without.
Can you do without hope?
Is it a must to be fulfilled or successful?
What does it mean (to be fulfilled or successful)?
Having material possessions? The image of a perfect family? High powered job? 2.5 kids?
Or having justice, fairness, kindness, love, equality,
freedom…?
Of course, in life, you get to decide.
You have a choice to choose what hope means to you; and
when that hope is meaningful and substantive, it becomes a necessary bridge
between endurance and inspiration that allows you to hang on to dear life.
Evocative hope gives you time to learn, to achieve something
meaningful or to experience something wonderful in the moments in-between.
For this gift of extra, I hope you never lose it,
infinite evocative hope.
* “We must accept finite disappointment, but never
lose infinite hope” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
