Life would not be possible if we did not all have hope. How true is this statement ? You may agree or disagree, but discuss it giving good examples to strengthen your case.
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“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.” —Langston Hughes
What is hope? Someone said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” It whispers, “You’ll overcome this hardship.” It reassures us, soothing our minds by reminding, “life will improve.”
Our lives are infused with pain and suffering. Some people experience more of these regrettable symptoms of the human condition than others. Yet, we can overcome hardship with hope. Hope provides us with strength to conquer misery and despair, caused by misfortune, perhaps an unforeseen failure in exams on the result day. After you’ve worked long hours on a project, your teacher, calling you into his office, sitting you down, saying, “It's not acceptable.”
Perhaps an unexpected auto accident: A man in a rush, texting on his smart phone, crashes his delivery trunk into the side of your new blue Mustang, the one you saved five years since, now being dragged away from the tow truck to the scrap yard.
According to a psychologist, hope includes three elements: a belief, a goal, and a path. The person who is hopeful believes that he/she will succeed. Secondly, the person has a specific goal or direction or destination. Thirdly, the person knows the route or path he/she will take to achieve the desired outcome. And so, hope is a mindset, the will and determination to believe that you’ll overcome. Hope also provides you with a map of the route on how to achieve the desired outcome.
Hope is not wishful thinking, nor is it magical thinking. Hope is an emotion, a mindset, a belief, a motivation, that despite setbacks and obstacles, despite hardship and misfortune, despite the unknown last chapter of your life’s story, you believe that your life will work out, that when you take your last breath, there is something else beyond this world.
You can do incredible things when you have enough hope. It was Christopher Reeves, a former actor who became paralyzed, a quadriplegic, after being thrown from his horse, and then forced to live for many years strapped to a wheelchair, breathing from a ventilator, who said, “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”