What things in life give you hope? Is there anything in your life that makes you feel like life is worth living?
2007-12-13 08:09:14 · 8 answers · asked by Mikey 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hope is a fantasy about something you think will bring you pleasure in your future. Your future is just the rehashed memory of your past with some imagined changes.
To 'feel' something is to think about something and either find pleasure or pain in the idea.
Your question is 'what ideas can I imagine about life that will make me think that I am experiencing pleasure?'
Why are you putting so much effort into something that you have no control over?
You are life. How can you make that life you are more or less valuable? It is what it is.
It is you and me.
2007-12-13 08:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hope can get you through a tough time, times when it seems like all the chips are down and everything is working against you and nothing will ever work out. Hope makes it so that you don't go completely into despair. Hope brings you around to a moment of surrendering to what is in this moment, and expectation of a better future.
I really enjoyed the course on Hope at the University Of Metaphysical Sciences. You can check out the course listing at http://umsonline.org/MetaphysicalDegreesCourses/ElectivesCourseDescriptions.htm#Hope and the free course excerpts at http://www.ucmeta.org/Pages/Articles/Hope/DIRHopeSoulDreamsRealMeditationHopesHealingFaithLifeChest.htm
2007-12-13 16:43:16 · answer #2 · answered by Laura Phillips 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope, used as a weapon in the Matrix, our strongest asset, and the source of our greatest weakness, is far better than Faith, the handmaiden of murder. Hope is what you have left when the well runs dry, and your waiting on rain. If it rains, people say they had faith, that God would do it for them, if it doesn't rain, they have hope till they die. Hope has no top end, some hope for a bicycle, others hope for fair weather to make war, depends on what you need. Hope is derived from the wellspring of need. It is not related to what makes life worth living, a fulfilled hope usually allows life to continue, a bit better off. Good luck is what makes life worth living, and good luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
2007-12-13 16:23:02 · answer #3 · answered by Tacit Hue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never believe in hope.. My life wasn't as great. I was in a foster home for 3 years not knowing my family and not knowing that i do have a family out there...
But as i turn 18 i started to believe in hope.. I found the greatest guy who was always there for me.. he never put me down or let me fall.. he held my hand everywhere i go.. he was the greatest..
we just recently got marry and i am very happy... So even though you think there is no hope out there for you, there is, you jus have to wait for the right time to come... it might take a while but its worth waiting...
my took 10 years...
2007-12-13 16:27:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everything makes me feel like life is worth living. The good and the bad are part of being alive, what a gift it is to be able to participate in life and leave my footprint, though it may be small, on this creation.
2007-12-13 16:57:34 · answer #5 · answered by hmmmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing children care about others. That gives me hope.
2007-12-13 16:23:12 · answer #6 · answered by muchadoaboutnothing 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
for us hope is simply a positive out look or attitude
anything beautiful can be a well spring of hope
2007-12-13 17:06:07 · answer #7 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope is the anticipation of possibility.
2007-12-13 16:32:12 · answer #8 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋