Hopelessness
What I want to talk about in this post may be thought of as something to frown upon: something too pessimistic and just not right. But I urge you to just read through with an open mind and then post your comments.
We all know that people go through good and bad times in their lives. No one bothers to think about the past or the future while one is enjoying the good times. The present is a friend of only the happy individual. To a person afflicted with the disease called sadness, the present is the first deserter. A sad person only looks up to the future and remembers his past.
This is where the notion of hope sets in. It is hope that is supposed to get people through their bad times. But isn't hope just refocusing a sad person's energies away from the present? There is no guarantee that this hope will push the person out of his sad state. While we all know that sadness is as much a stat of mind as happiness is, it is possible that hope is just another state of mind that will try and get you out of that sadness.
I think hopelessness is better than hope in my opinion. Hope reduces the rational thinking ability of human beings. It is hopelessness that gives a person more rationality and critical thinking ability than hope does. If humanity changes its notion of looking at hopelessness, we all may be better off altogether.
Ultimately, hope offers a person an opportunity to delve into the future and the past, while the present is being wasted. Hopelessness, on the other hand, will go towards actually bring out the real solution. I know that this post was not as smooth as the other ones, and I will try and I will try and re post If it did make sense, please post a comment.
posted by Neonirvana @ 12/23/2007
3 Comments
3 Comments:
In my belief hope is a driver, it pulls you out from your present and takes you to better tomorrow. Yes, there is no guarantee in hope that things you are hoping will become true. But, it lifts your moral and helps us focus that present is also temporary. With your aim (given by hope) and focus you can be in better state of mind in your present time. Yes, statistically your brain works much faster when you have issues, but are you happy? You mentioned happiness leaves us, I believe that WE think during our sad time that happiness is no longer with us. Happiness is our true friend; he always stays with us as far as we appreciate his presence. During sad times we conclude that happiness has deserted us, but if you look around happiness is there in small things. In conclusion I will only say that it’s only our perspective which changes from good time to bad time, happiness and hope always there with us as our friend.
Thanks for your comment. I wrote about this topic of hopelessness to try and delve into exactly what you are saying. However, I will actually go one more step and say that we all are in a much higher state than the ones like happiness and sadness; we just don't know about them yet. In my opinion, these are still mental states that we control knowingly or unknowingly. In the grander scheme of things, there will be no ned for hope to move someone higher from his/her current situation as after all, you can't go higher than the top, which is where we all are. But the full discussion of this may take another post or two !!!
Hope - A quintessential human delusion,like emotion, designed to kill rationality and critical thinking.
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