HOPE

Faith, charity, fortitude, justice, prudence, temperance, and hope, as we all know in a better way , are the seven virtues . Wait a minute!! did I mention hope?

"Sorry you are wrong". I am not talking about the famous Hollywood comedian Bob Hope either."Hope. What is hope ? Hope is a wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment. Hope is Something that is hoped for or desired: Success is our hope. and....Is that it or is there more? Let us see..

According to Greek mythology, after Pandora opened the forbidden box, entire evil escaped out with hope being the exception. It was hope which eased out her pain of releasing all the evils. It took dwelling in her heart.People curse her for letting all the evils but i think we should be thankful to her for letting hope out , which provides a shield to every evils that pose a threat to us.

Well that was history speaking on my behalf. I beg to differ when people say hope and desire are synonyms. I dont agree with it.I feel hope comes from desire. Had here been no desire there would have been no hope. With every desire born ,a hope is born. Desire is the mother of all hopes.They are the two sides of the same coin.But saying that I dont question their interdependency. Hope is what helps in getting one's desire fulfilled.They are the driving force to evolution. Desire is the fountainhead of great discoveries and inventions. The world without the present day inventions would have been unthinkable , if not for the inventors who had hope and perseverence which led them to their discoveries.They had desires and hope saw them getting through.I,or to put in a general case, we woudnt have born had not our parents desired to have us. With every person born, a desire and hence a hope is born and it grows with him and continues to be with him with never to lose his side. Just as a person is born with a shadow, in the same way one is born with hope. It is we who are the culprit of being a traitor to a lifelong friend who without fail follows us till the end.It is the best friend we can have , if not better. It is the reason for our existence. 'Hope can neither be destroyed and defeated.'

Desire and hence hope differentiate two persons.People have different desires and have different perspective towards life which make them different personalities.It has given rise to two adjectives which are given to the human nature i.e. an optimist and a pessimist.Being a pessimist does not mean zero hope but having negative of it with the positive part of it being suppressed deep inside one's body.There are innumerable peoople who are visually and hearing impaired, but there is only one Helen Keller who had hope and belief even when she didnt have anything else.It can do miracles if one wants to call them so.It sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. Hope is a necessary diet for being sucessful. Unless and until one believes in himself/herself he/ she cannot make it to the top .

We hope for many things but don't get all of it. We get some and we dont get some. life is all these type of unfulfilled hopes but anything except it.Life is all about conquering these negative hopes and convert it to the positive.

Hope is all we will have even when every one else desert us.hope is the reason to live .It is the reason for us to live. It has given us the power to trust and have belief in people and this is one of the reason that life still goes on.It is the prized possession of every human being and people should not be deprived of it as ' who knows it may be the only thing he/she is left in the world.

PS: written on 04/04/2005