HOPE

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.  Emily Dickinson

Hope is a funny sort of thing, by that I mean it's both a “positive” and a “negative” to the extent that may be one's point of view. Positive because the very word hope is uplifting when we hear it, conjuring up the image of better days ahead. At the same time hope is a “negative” because it would suggest we are currently at present in a terrible, awful, or low spot and we may very well be. We “hope” to get out of it, but at the same time our current struggles, lows and battles are what makes us better, we improve from getting through them , so hope, similar to destiny or fate is really us struggling through our current predicament and coming out the other side, then eventually doing something similar all over again. Bottom line is hope is what we make it. Mark Manson has a great book, hope is F***** , if you can get past the title it's a very well researched and thought out practical read. Abe Lincoln said the best way to predict the future is to create it, one could also say the best way to have hope is to create it.