My wife was going through and arranging the contents of one of the cabinet drawers, when she found a bunch of old emails, written back when I was still courting her. It was part of my reply to her statement about not giving me any false hopes and about moving too fast. Anyway, my reply goes like this:
“Some say it’s better not to give any hope than giving false hopes. I’d like to think that there’s no such thing as a false hope. Hope is always genuine. We hope to be happy. We hope for the best. We hope to be this, we hope to be that. But people often forget that hope should not be equated with the outcome. If we do that, we will most probably be disappointed. With hope comes acceptance. We strive for something and it is hope which keeps our drive burning. We should learn to accept whatever comes out of our endeavors. Then we move on from there.”
These lines, however, go beyond love and relationships. It could very well apply to any move to change — for the better — our current political situation, or to the poor trying to get out of the economic quicksand. It could apply to a better work or better financial future. It could apply pretty much to anything, including the favorite issue in beauty pagents — world peace.
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