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DOES HOPE FLOAT?
| Guest post by: James Ladd |
Article Overview: Charlie Brown, the little neurotic fellow we have all come to know and love is an eternal optimist when it comes to kicking a football. No matter how many times Lucy pulls the ball away he always hopes that the next time she will let him kick it. In a way we are all like Charlie, no matter how often we hope, regardless of the outcome we always come back to it again and again. Because we have come to know that on those rare occasions we realize our hopes. There is another reason though for clinging to our hopes, a much more powerful reason in fact
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DOES HOPE FLOAT?
Charlie Brown, the little neurotic fellow we have all come to know and
love is an eternal optimist when it comes to kicking a football. No matter how
many times Lucy pulls the ball away he always hopes that the next time she will
let him kick it.
In a way we are all like Charlie, no matter how often we hope, regardless
of the outcome we always come back to it again and again. Because we have come
to know that on those rare occasions we realize our hopes.
There is another reason though for clinging to our hopes, a much more
powerful reason in fact. When there is nothing else, hope is essentially what
keeps us afloat during those very
difficult times in our lives. When we feel overwhelmed, that life is crashing
down around us, we still have hope. We cling to it like a life preserver. At
times even, it is the only thing that keeps us from drowning, keeps our heads
above water and keeps us afloat. Does hope float? You bet it does!
Hope is important because it can make the
present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be
better, we can bear a hardship today. Thich Nhat Hanh
Hope is a human trait that all reasonably healthy individuals possess.
After all when you reflect back over your life, how often do you recall hoping
for something in your life? It could be rather frivolous like making it through
a traffic light before it turns red, winning the lottery or as in my case the
hope that a lung transplant would come in time to save my life.
I have tried over the years to not write or talk that much about what was
the most difficult time on my life. But let me share just a little bit……
After getting over the initial shock of being told that I would die without
a transplant, hope began to grow out of the darkest time in my life. I clung to
it for almost two full years along with a growing faith and belief that the
dawn would come. I waited, watched and worked. Oh, how I worked to stay alive.
I never ever gave up the fight.
After spending five months at the Riverview Health Center, at the eleven
hour, they told me later I had perhaps one week left to live, the transplant
came and here I am seven-and-a-half-years later. Yes, hope was my life preserver;
it was all I had at times to keep me from drowning!
HOPE
WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY
There is an aspect too hope that I suspect is not really talked about all
that much if at all, and it seems to me, at least from my experience that
authentically real hope only comes out of our willingness to take
responsibility for our lives no matter what the circumstances, and as much as
possible tell ourselves the truth about those circumstances. They say, whoever
they are, that the truth will set you free and however difficult it is at times
to hear the truth, I believe this to be true. It certainly was in my case. I
believe too that when we behave in this way we magnify the strength of our
expression of hope and its power.
Hope is the thing with feathers- That perches
in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all. Emily Dickinson
Woodrow T. Wilson is
credited with saying; “We
grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft
haze of spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us
let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them
through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes
always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”
It of course is not enough
to be just a visionary (intuitive). The world has more than its share of
dreamers; idealistic, romantic individuals whose lives never go nowhere. One
must believe to the very core of their being that their hopes and dreams will
become a reality. There is an energy that comes out of this belief or mindset.
When you also understand the power that comes to you when you take
responsibility and are prepared to make the sacrifices necessary to realize a
dream or hope for your future it increases exponentially the probability of
hopes and dreams being realized.
Hope...is the companion of power, and the
mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel
Smiles
Will you take responsibility and leave this world a better place than you
found it, or will you dream and hope your life away?
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