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[arsenicgraffiti]

Don't be alarmed. I am just genuinely curious as to what the answer is.

What is hope and why should it matter?

Comments

[danatheleseus]

Its the feeling that things will get better and a reason to get up in the morning. Even if its a lie, at least you get through one more day.

[arsenicgraffiti]

"Even if it's a lie." But if one places hope on a lie, isn't this self-defeating and eventually pointless especially if one knows it?

[arsenicgraffiti]

To what purpose does hoping for a better world help accomplish when we can easily ignore the true, staggering depth of the injustice ingrained within our social systems and still call vague, sunny dreams hope?

[arsenicgraffiti]

If hope is just something there to make us feel better, isn't it just a lie, and therefore an unreliable foundation to keep us going?

[dia_aren_marie]

I'm not sure how to describe hope.

But it's what keeps us going. At least, it keeps me going. Even if it's faint.

[arsenicgraffiti]

But why?

[glass_icarus]

hope is the feeling that things can get better, but mostly i think it's the feeling that things can change (see: Barack Obama)- and that's what makes us willing to get up and try again and work harder, when we fall down.

[arsenicgraffiti]

I have. |D