Why is hope considered a good thing? Hope is the root of all suffering. If we were truly without hope, then we would accept all the pain and become numb to it. But no instead there’s this cruel thing called hope that makes us think we can beat it, so it stabs us and makes us expect salvation that we never get. It makes the pain so much worse because we keep comparing the pain to some imaginary life that’s better. But it never comes. Hope is just a drug that makes us hallucinate great things, but once the high wears off–and it always does–the crash brings us down harder than ever before.
They say hope keeps us going. Yes, it keeps us suffering, prolonging our agony and ensuring that our defeat is extra painful. I’m so exhausted from it all.
3 comments
cyanidesofmarch,
so true! hope is what keeps us alive, it just takes a pinch and you will never kill yourself! sometimes it works though! it’s gambling.
As long as we’re alive, we have to hope that life can improve. Life has its ups and downs, but you have to have hope.
… or you can be pragmatic and at least have perserverance … knowing that realistically things change one way or the other – wait long enough (doing things helps distract and pass the time) and something will change … make sound decisions and the change is likely to be beneficial
realist dawg