On Hope

Hope is necessary. For everything and everyone. It is what makes children so crazy cool and adults so often frustrating. Kids are hope incarnate - they just might be the next MLK or Gandhi or at least a decent human being that brings happiness to the world. Adults - they are already formed and will be nothing more than what they are.

The world is a dark place, but it also glimmers with the light of hope and laughter and truth. Sometimes we find hope in religion, or in each other, or in possibilities of life. It's what makes life worth living. It is the crux of everything that is important. It is the hope in the revolution - that we will learn to love each other, that is what is good with humanity.

On the other hand, it is scary to hope. Because it is future, it is unknown - this is the greatness and the frustration of hope. For, what if we hope, and it is wasted? What if our hope turns to disappointment. The anger of so many people is predicated on the fear of hope. They do not want to hope because they have been burned so many times before. Negativity and sarcasm and pessimism grow along with hopelessness and those who are in this place fear hope because for them hope is so often empty.