Free Write: Hope
Today’s post is based on a writing prompt I shared in a previous Daily Drafts & Dialogues post. Keep reading to see what I wrote, and to access more writing prompts.
What I wrote below is based on the following writing prompt: Set a timer for ten minutes. Once you start the timer, start free writing about what hope is, why it's important, and what it means to you. Write about whatever comes to your mind as soon as it comes to your mind, and don't overthink what you're writing about. Don't stop writing until the timer goes off.
Hope
Hope is exclusively for the resilient. It’s not for the faint of heart, or for those who give up too easily on life and living.
Hope isn’t something easy to achieve or believe and doesn’t come cheap, which partially explains its elusive nature. Because hope can’t be bought and sold at a store for life, or in life. Otherwise, people would have hope in droves and wear it like a necklace instead of avoiding it as if it were a noose. And we all know that they don’t. Though I wish that wasn’t the case anymore.
Hope is light enough to carry but not all that easy to grasp and hang onto and isn’t for those who don’t know how to handle precious and expensive cargo with care. Or for those who don’t make the space for its existence in their lives. Hope takes up a lot of mostly intangible space, in other words.
Hope is for the brave, for the doers and movers and shakers, for those who expect and demand change, not for those who expect or accept that everything will stay the same. Because hope is the only way to envision and mold a future worth living. Without it, everything will stay on the same trajectory.
Hope is not for those who willfully stick their heads in the sand to evade present and perceived future truths. Because hope is primarily forward-looking, wide-eyed, and resolute. Hope must be diligently applied now to be effective later, in other words.
Effective hope is unshakable and requires every ounce of energy to endure and embody and takes a massive amount of strength and intelligence to hold and execute at the same time, which is why most people don’t or can’t hold onto it.
Hope is for those who understand the gritty truth of reality surrounding them and seek a new and better way despite what they see. Despite all the perceived challenges and obstacles. Because they know that hope requires creativity and adaptability based on that reality, despite that reality, as they know that hope is the only thing that can make that reality, our reality, change shape and improve.
If you’re not hoping when you consider the future, then what are you doing? Because the future is coming for you regardless.
I might revise, edit, or add to this draft in the future. Stay tuned.
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