There will be challenges and situations that will demand
that you give in or give up, but you must be ready to go overboard and switch
hope gears at every point in time.
There are no hopeless situations, we only have hopeless
people. Hope is not a situation; it is a state of mind. It is very possible to
keep hope alive in the worst situations of life. What produces hope is not
external, it is an internal mechanism.
Hope is a well stream that is within, you have the capacity
to generate hope no matter how precarious or how terrible your situation may be.
I understand that your financial issues are worrisome, that you are in such a
predicament but I believe that you also have free flow of hope resident within
you, that you can dig into that recesses and you can bring something out no
matter the challenging situation that you have. It flows from within and it
touches without. That is the kind of wellspring of hope that you have.
How come people still feel depressed about their present circumstances yet have
a hope reservoir? People are just anxious!
An African proverb says “delayed expectations turn the heart adrift” meaning;
when expectation is overstretched, a man’s mind becomes anxious. Remember
anxiety is not thinking about the future, it is trying to control the future;
it is the analysis of the future, the breeding-ground of fear. That is why
anxious people will eventually develop into fearful people. Too much
analysis of what tomorrow will turn out to be is what eventually leads to
paralysis.
There are two major reasons why people commit suicide, the
first one is they believe their past is so bad and it can never be
overlooked. The second is that they think their future is so bleak and it
cannot be overturned.
- When a man is on a suicide mission, he agrees that the
future is far beyond and his past has a way of influencing that future.
- When a man is on a suicide mission, he assumes everything
about tomorrow is mechanical and scientific and he attempts to provide answers
to all the questions he has.
An anonymous quote says “do not complain about what you can
change, go ahead and change it. But what you cannot change, change the way you
think about it”
When hope reaches zero level in you, it is impossible to get
a turnaround – your situations conform to the state of your mind.
Hope is an unwavering belief that the odds may count, but I am positive
it is going to be fine.
Hope is an inward fire that keeps burning even when
there is no oil to fuel it any further.
Dear friends, let hope rise in your spirit. May you be fired
up for a fresh start! Encourage yourself to start anew and revive the hope that
is within you. Don’t forget, hope is an internal mechanism; there is a
wellspring of hope within you. Things in time will change for the better.
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