I'm about to check whether I'm the 166 Million dollar winner of last night's MEGA. Notice how I'm hoping for the best! not the 10mil prize that maybe 20 other winners might have gotten. Nooooo, I'm greedy and want it all to myself. Funny thing is that part of me DOES NOT want to hope. The part that will be irreparably crushed once I find out that my $1 or $3 investment did not pay off after all. It truly is puzzling that we might think this way... we call it jinxing or bad luck, but the truth is that we HOPE all the time. We hope the girl putting on her face in the car next to us, during rush hour, will not hit us as her car dangerously swerves into our lane. We hope our favorite team will not mess up, in those last 40 seconds of the game, the small 2pt lead they have. We hope that all our environmental problems are someone else's. We hope that the tire around our waist will magically disappear in the middle of the night. We hope that tales such as Starwars, Harry Potter or even the old Arabian Nights are true somewhere. We hope... hope... hope... and then I realized how important it is to hope, to believe in something outside of ourselves. Perhaps it's not the most realistic and it might never happen but it keeps us happy to believe. Hope does keep us alive and now that I'm about to check the results you should feel how my heart is beating; for once I'm hoping, without restraints, that I might be the lucky winner... wish me luck!
PS: word of advice - not all we hope for is so unrealistic.... those 'hopes' that can come true are called dreams and they are yours for the taking.
2 comments:
Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel that we're constantly pushing for.... :)
I think there are 2 kinds of hope. One kind that you cannot act on, yet it makes you gets up in the morning, and keep hoping.
The other kind is the ones that you can act up on. If you want it enough, it becomes wish, and once you take action on it, very likly you will get it.
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