Converting Hope into Reality
By Shiva
@Shiva49 (26207)
Singapore
June 6, 2021 9:16am CST
We live on hope of a better tomorrow than today. However, if it turns out much worse, then we fight back to the wall. That is survival instinct we are born with like other species too. No one will give up without a fight to be here just for a moment more.
The present pandemic has brought this to reality. Many gasp for breath and get hooked on oxygen support as a last resort and also in ICU. Hope drives us to exist another day here despite whatever challenges we face even as a normal person. When we go through harrowing times, we don’t give up and even forget our petty peeves that held us down earlier.
I did not have hopes based on anything concrete. It was for a simple, hassle free, future to complete my duty as a family person. That looks to be over but hope still burns, though at times flickers, to look forward to another day.
I do not really know what is that I look forward to now. This pandemic has made us change our lifestyle but now the only hope that I entertain is for life as normal that we all took for granted.
Hopefully, you can chip in with what drives you to look ahead to the future.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49028)
• United States
6 Jun 21
I am hopeful that life will return to normal for us all.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49028)
• United States
6 Jun 21
@Shiva49 I never could have imagined such a worldwide nightmarish pandemic.
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@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
6 Jun 21
@Tampa_girl7 I wonder all the time why no one, psychics et al, could predict this pandemic when they claim they can predict my future.
I feel none will ever know what is in store for us tomorrow.
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
6 Jun 21
Your article prompts me to ask:
How is hope related to reality?
Hope sits within love until it reaches into you from that love, and so makes love the greater reality for you too then, rather than anything else that might be occupying your mind as a false reality.
Love is the only real reality.
Love has hope for us, and tries to draw the hope out of us then too.
We can never have hope on our own.
Our hope is never connected to reality, if we try to have hope, without love.
@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
7 Jun 21
Reality is what we face here right now to be a responsible human being, citizen, family person.
Hope is to better our reality so that we can ever slowly punch above our weight.
Of course, reality and hope vary according to each. Mine is more of finding meaning and adjusting to the environment. Hope is to remain useful to society but not to get too carried away too.
Hope is more of looking forward to another day where our environment is healthy and we remain healthy too - okay, at times wishful thinking taking over!
Love is more of an esoteric subject but most live it in their daily life from a smile to looking to help others in need as a true servant of our creator. More of altruism.
God is up there watching everything through his own CCTV, taking out players at will and introducing the new. Maybe we may add to his bench strength after we are done here waiting for another command "you, go quick and do what you can. Do your best. The only judge is the mighty me. I am the lord of everything."
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
7 Jun 21
@Shiva49 The inner reality need not match the outer reality, and hope keeps our inner reality alive, when the outer is falling to pieces, all around us too.
Hope is not something to latch onto in times of hopelessness, but a ladder that reaches into heaven.
Climbing hope's ladder is the only way into heaven, as without hope, no ladders are provided, that said though, the ladder of hope must have both its feet and its top dipped into love, and if not, the ladder of hope becomes a snake, and we slide down it again.
Hope is being able to still see love, when there appears to be no love.
@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
7 Jun 21
@innertalks Yes, there could be a mismatch, wide chasm, between the inner and outer reality.
The outer reality could be harsh for a few while for others it could not be better.
I try to be flexible; if I am going through hell, I look for some toehold to heaven as any opening from hell should be heaven! Maybe, I reach it at the cost of my toe!
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." said Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should accept a lower reality than what we had hoped for but we should use it as a springboard to leap to a higher one driven by hope.
I believe in the goodness of creation in the sense we have the power to adjust to reality like a few in the airline and travel industry taking up whatever they can get a hold on
Soon the doors of heaven are thrown open to those who see they are always open while a few take a double take and choose to remain outside waiting for being ushered into!
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@RebeccasFarm (86776)
• United States
6 Jun 21
I understand your view Shiva.
Somehow this is transient however for you and me as well.
We must keep the flame alive tho the adversity is immense.
I am with you.
Keep an eye for your message here from me:)
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@RebeccasFarm (86776)
• United States
6 Jun 21
@Shiva49 Indeed it does Shiva, we the common people will survive.
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@snowy22315 (170047)
• United States
6 Jun 21
I second what Marie said, my only hope at the moment is for things to return to normal, or at least something we can all live with.
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@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
7 Jun 21
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie.
We should cling to hope when all else around us give up on us.
We still have breath left and that means it is not over yet!
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