Hope is a strange thing...

Its Monday today ... and now for third Monday in the row... I have Monday blues... :(... I feel tired.... and somewhat drained... :( I was HOPING to catch up on some sleep over the weekend... but somehow I could not.... so now my brain is sending signals... that I am tired... :) I know and understand... that this feeling of tiredness is more a perception than reality... :)

This happens all the times... whenever we pin our HOPE at something and we do not get it... then we are disappointed... and it pains us...!! Now this pain can be as insignificant as tiredness... or crankiness... but at times ... it can also be huge... frustration... and anger...!!

Did we not feel terrible when we did not get the promotion (at the work place) that we were so hoping for...?? Did it not hurt us when one of our good friends forgot to wish us on our birthday... and we hoped that he or she would send a gift :)?? Were we not angry when India lost in a cricket match to Pakistan... that we so hoped India to win??

Whether the hope is for a small and rather insignificant thing... or it is for something that has a life changing effect.... if our hope is not fulfilled... it has bothered us... it has pained us... it has made us sad... !! At many a times the root cause of our ‘pain’... is our ‘hope’...!!

But this is not the conclusion… there is another side to this coin... another part of this story... and that is... at times... HOPE has been the sole life force... that has helped us sustain ... and motivated us to continue in the toughest of the situations...!!

It is only because we hope that there is light at the other end of the dark tunnel that we get the strength to walk through it...!!

Is it not only because we hope... that next time we would be promoted... that we still continue to work...?? Is it not because we hope that our dear friend would be there for us always... that we forgive him or her... for forgetting our birthday...?? At times we feel that everything is lost.... and that... now we can endure no more... but we still hold on... because deep down we have this HOPE that... this too shall pass...!!

Though I have quoted insignificant examples... but I hope to bring significant attention to the context :)!!

Yes... we hope and so... we are... really!! It’s the hope… that keeps us sane amidst maddening situations... gives us strength to look beyond and wait for a better future... however at times it even hurts us... makes us feel desperate...!! At times hope helps us have confidence... happiness... dreams... aspirations... patience... and also at times pain...despair... frustration... anger... agitation... and hopelessness... :)

It is quite strange as how HOPE invokes a wide spectrum of feelings and emotions... and how it keeps us humane... :)!!