Should we have hope?
Interesting question. The answer is yes and no.
In one way it’s not because things are hopeless but because so often having hope creates division. Because hope means you think somebody else is going to do something about all the problems.
If having hope means you’re just sitting around happy and hoping and pretending that nothing’s really going on then, that’s not of a benefit to anybody else besides yourself.
But then again on the other hand, should we have hope? Well yes. Things always work out one way or the other and without a certain level of hope you’re not going to jump in and and be involved. Are you?
The other nice thing about hope is that if you think that there are solutions you’re going to be drawn to those solutions like a magnet. Those are going to be the things that you participate in.
If you don’t have any hope then you’re going to participate in hopelessness.
Pay attention to when people are talking and everybody gets into the huge negative conversation of, “Oh! human beings are terrible. they’re the only animal that ever this that or that the other. The only way that the Earth is ever going to be fixed is if all the human beings are dead.”
I mean holy cow! These are hopeless conversations and they’re like just spreading mental pollution.
There’s tons of things we can do about every single thing that’s going on. Every single one of us. There isn’t a single human being who’s going to fix the world all by themselves. Every single solution is a community and a global solution of which you and I are just as important as the president, or the senator, or the huge scientist in the lab. Because you can be part of moving everything forward.
Are you spreading mental vomit or are you bringing courage and truth and generosity into the things that you are doing every day? There has to be some benefit in changing the discourse that we constantly have with each other. Not blind hope, but action.
So should we have hope?
Yes and no.