Sunday 13 October 2013

Hope is why Ram went to rescue Sita. Happy Dusshera :)

Firstly, I want to thank everyone for being a part of my little 'Hope Quest'. It was overwhelming and very exciting to hear the kind of personal definitions and meanings people had. Mostly all the responses I received were optimistic. It was pleasing to see that people answered almost instinctively, furthermore proving the closeness of people to this issue.

For me, hope is the background music to life. The kind you see in a movie, you know? It's beautiful and goes on in the background, perpetually. Perfect in each moment. It's probably a clinging force as well, but it keeps us all going. It is dynamic. It is strength. It is weakness. Its a feeling more than a condition. It's always hovering in the shadows, so subtle. It shatters as quickly as glass, and is rebuilt in a jiffy.

In the words of  Francis Bacon, "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." I couldn't agree more. But I also believe that if hope is the reason people smile first thing in the morning, then it is also the reason people go to sleep with tranquility and solitude at night. Life is sometimes lugubrious and sometimes very well lit. During the day, we're all by ourselves, but in the dark of the night, we have hope. Sometimes, that's all we have.
Some people might say that hope is stagnant for it kills the desire to move forward and achieve what one can. But don't we all only hope when, against all odds and obstacles, we feel like we have lost it? That the light at the end of the tunnel is no longer at our disposal? Then how can hope kill the desire to achieve?
Hope is a beautiful belief.

Its watching those poor children in a temple ardently wait for food on a festival day.
Its the longing for a good birthday present every year.
It's the fire within you praying for someone else's lost spark to return.
Its the strong desire for the future to work out.
It's probably the only thing in the world which observes the glass as neither half full nor empty, but simply as a glass which can and will be filled with as much water as one wishes.
Hope justifies, 'May the odds be ever in your favour.'
Hope is why Harry Potter went to Hogwarts every year and redundantly tried to fight Voldemort,
Hope is why we do what we do and feel what we do. Its one powerful cosmic force. 
Hope resides and molds through the various predicaments of our lives. The oxford dictionary may define it as 'a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen." but for every breathing soul there's hidden meaning behind the word hope. Some may even fear to face it 
Each of the meanings below will only make sense to you if you can relate to them. Try it out for yourself. :)





































P.S. I am still in for more hope responses. :)