Hope

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”  ~Christopher Reeve 

      Hope is to believe that something good will come out of a person or a certain situation even though it may not seem as if it will end in positive outcome. I am hopeful for many things in life. Although there are times when I start to lose hope in something things but it eventually returns. I keep hopeful for things that I want to happen in my future.

      Everyday hope is encouraged to people in many ways. Without hope and positive thinking, the world would be an even worse place than it is now. If people have no hope for anything at all there will be no ambition either. There are many situations in which hope is greatly needed.

      There is a war going on the Middle East, there are hundreds of men and women fighting for our country everyday.  Their families and friends are all hopeful that they will return safely and not be injured to return home safely. The soldiers are also hopeful the defeat the enemy in which they are fighting. Once I learned that the war was taking place, this was around the time I learned more about having hope. Even though I didn’t not know the people who were out fighting I still had hope that they would return safely to their country.

      Hope can be shown in many ways, for example movies. In the movie Avatar, the American people were attempting to destroy the planet of Pandora for a mineral which is worth a lot of money in the states. The people of Pandora have hope that they will be able to defeat the American Army and save their planet. This begins to fade as the movie goes on because they nearly defeat the Na’Vi tribe when they destroy a very important piece of nature on their planet. Eventually they strike back and gain more power over the Americans and began to defeat their army and gained hope once again and won back their planet.

      Poverty is another major subject that some people seem to have lost all hope about. There are ways to get out of poverty and being homeless. Many people suffer through this while there are people living in riches who are doing nothing to help the unfortunate. They don’t think and say “maybe since I’m more fortunate then other I should help in some way” leaving those in poverty losing hope that people will help them. Its not their fault they have to live in the conditions they are born in, but what surprises me most is that many still have some hope that someday help will come.

      Many teenagers suffer from depression during their life. In many cases, I think that it’s the fact that they have lost all hope in their life. They don’t see the reason to have any hope or happiness. Possibly for the things that have happened in their life that may have been unfortunate. I believe there is always reason for happiness and to have ambition in life to live to its fullest potential. It’s the same situation with suicidal people as well. Only thing they have given up all hope, they feel there is absolutely no hope at all left and feel they should end their life all together, just give up, throw it all away. Help could definitely be given to these people and show them that people care and help them to find that hope that their life is worth living. Nothing is impossible when a person has a little hope.  
 

       Just a few months ago my grandfather became very ill. The doctors were telling my family that there was only a short time before he would pass. My family and I refused to just give up on him so fast. We prayed and prayed that he would come through his sickness and get well again. We didn’t lose hope even though he was pretty bad off. We didn’t think about that, all we thought about were the memories we all had with him and didn’t let his sickness get to us. The hope we still had that he would live, helped us a lot getting through the hard time. He passed a short time after, and we were all very heartbroken but in the end we all hoped that he was now in a better place.

      In conclusion, hope is a wonderful thing to have, in good times and bad times. It helps people to go forward in life. Whether it may be about going on a vacation or getting a new job. I personally hope that in my future I get to go to the Utila Bay Islands, Honduras this summer but I also hope for world peace as well. There is a way better chance of me going on my summer vacation, but I will never lose hope in having world peace. I believe that it is very possible.