Just Hope

"I am hopeless, no one can help me anymore, that's why I can.."

"There's no hope for this situation, let's just try to save our own skin first."

"Please, looking at the current predicament that he/she is in, it's hopeless, I can't help him."

I don't believe anyone can live in this world, and live without hope. If we were to look deep within ourselves; we see hope in something, somewhere or someone.

Recall with me, that there was this one moment(I don't believe it's one to begin with), that we read an article, watched a drama or maybe even a movie whereby something we read or watched stirred up this particular emotion in us; that we felt at that exact instance, the hairs on one's arms standing or to be even more dramatic, we found ourselves choked with emotions without even knowing why.

We can probably argue that it's our emotions at work. But deep down, I really do believe that despite our emotions, we find ourselves unknowingly and seemingly moved, by that particular line or scene because we do believe in it. We believed in it from the first instance we heard or read it. This is belief and hope in it's very basic essence. Then, like a natural procedure, the reality of this world sets in and perhaps our hearts get hardened or maybe our faith wavers and there goes our hope.

I've really been reminded over this past few weeks of how crucial hope is in one's life. We believe and then we hope. But more often than once, in this world that we're living in, we fail to even get past the stage of belief and from there, goes our hope, our faith.

Perhaps then, the question to ask ourselves is not whether I have belief and hope right now, but instead, what are my hopes and beliefs based on?