Does hope float?

Charlie Brown, the little neurotic we all know and love, is an eternal optimist when it comes to kicking a soccer ball. No matter how many times Lucy removes the ball, she always hopes that next time she will let her kick it.

In a way, we are all like Charlie, no matter how often we wait for him, no matter the outcome, we always come back to him over and over again. Because we have come to know that on those rare occasions we make our hopes come true.

However, there is another reason to cling to our hopes, a much more powerful reason in fact. When there is nothing else, hope is essentially what keeps us afloat during such difficult times in our lives. When we feel overwhelmed, as life collapses around us, we still have hope. We cling to it like a lifeline. Even sometimes, it’s the only thing that keeps us from drowning, keeps our heads above the water, and keeps us afloat. Does hope float? Surely yes!

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, today we can bear the difficulties. Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is a human trait that all reasonably healthy people possess. After all, when you reflect on your life, how often do you remember expecting something in your life? It could be something frivolous like running a stoplight before it turns red, winning the lottery, or as in my case hoping that a lung transplant will arrive in time to save my life.

Over the years I have tried not to write or talk much about what was the most difficult moment of my life.

But let me share a bit …

After overcoming the initial shock of being told that I would die without a transplant, hope began to sprout from the darkest moment of my life. I clung to it for almost two full years along with a growing faith and belief that the dawn would come. I waited, watched, and worked. Oh how I worked to stay alive I never gave up the fight.

After spending five months at the Riverview Health Center, at eleven o’clock, they told me later that I had maybe a week to live, the transplant came and here I am seven and a half years later. Yes, hope was my lifeline; It was all I had sometimes to keep me from drowning!

HOPE WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY

There is also an aspect of hope that I suspect is not talked about much, if at all, and it seems to me, at least from my experience, that truly real hope only arises from our willingness to take responsibility for our lives without import anything. what the circumstances are and, to the extent possible, tell us the truth about those circumstances. They say, whoever they are, that the truth will set them free, and as difficult as it is sometimes to hear the truth, I believe this to be true. It certainly was in my case. I also believe that when we behave in this way we magnify the strength of our expression of hope and its power.

Hope is the feathered thing, that sits on the soul, and sings the melodies without the words, and it never stops, not at all. Emily Dickinson

Woodrow T. Wilson is credited with saying; “We grow great with dreams. All great men are dreamers. They see things in the soft mist of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter night. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others they nurture and protect them, take care of them during the bad days until they take them to the sun and the light that always reaches those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. “

Of course, it is not enough to just be a visionary (intuitive). The world has more dreamers than its share; idealistic and romantic individuals whose lives never go anywhere. One must believe in the depths of his being that his hopes and dreams will come true. There is an energy that arises from this belief or mindset. When you also understand the power that comes to you when you take responsibility and are prepared to make the sacrifices necessary to realize a dream or hope for your future, you exponentially increase the likelihood that hopes and dreams will come true.

Hope … is the companion of power and the mother of success; because whoever has so much hope has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel smiles

Will you take responsibility and leave this world in a better place than you found it, or will you dream and wait for your life?