Hopelessly Believing

We all look forward for something
good to happen.

     Looking for hope is an enormous task that demands believing. Hope is something to be found only in the context of an assumption and prayer that there is something better that lies ahead--and that there is a reason why one should keep on moving forward. In my life experience, the light of hope had recently passed through extinguishing events that kept me grappling for something to hold on to so I would never give up on my very life itself. Overwhelming experiences are great extinguishers of hope. They devour the very last ounce of faith that is present by reminding you of your mortality and limitations. Worst of all, hopelessness could be infectious and contagious. In the company of the paranoid, the lack of hope becomes the overpowering poltergeist that afflicts pain and menace to the core of one's belief.
     Some say love conquers hopelessness, to which I agree, with some inclusions. A person who is hopeless must see that there is a reality of goodness that is to happen. a seeing that goes beyond the realms of ordinary perception and current psycho-physical experience. The question that remains to be answered is: What would make depressed people see something good to look forward to. Teach me to hope...make me see beyond what I see...open my eyes to the wonder I cannot behold yet.