Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes. We all hope, it's the fire that helps us smith our lives into what we want. It gives us something to fight for. But hope alone can't embellish failure.
Many people across the world are caught in a sort of 'hope syndrome'. Thinking that if we just have hope, we will be fine. Hope paralyses us at times. Instead of deciding to go visit your widowed mum in your hometown, you hope you have the time to go see her. Go get that A you've been wanting in school? No, I just hope I can make it.
We hope and then leave it to chance. Sometimes it works out and that's the cunning of this syndrome. Hope worked once before, why not again? Or every time? So what do you do when hope alone is not enough? Slaves wouldn't have been emancipated if they just sat and hoped. They pushed and fought for it. Women wouldn't be more of a force in society today if they had just sat and hoped in the face of chauvinist regime after chauvinist regime. They put their feet down and demanded to be heard.
Hope goes with action, with an unrelenting will to succeed and swift decisiveness.
It's OK to hope, but don't just stand there, decide to make things better and then work at it for perseverance kills the game.
Verily verily I tell you most solemnly, don't just Hope, Decide!