Hope
When you’re lost, how do you know you’re on the right track again?
You don’t.
You just keep walking and hope you’ll reach somewhere.
Sometimes you do.
He looks at her from the corner of his eyeThinking she won’t noticeSecretly hoping she willSo secret, he won’t even admit to himself She feels his lookLike sunlight, warm on her cheeksHer eyes stay downcastShielded from his blinding gazeWarmed nevertheless by its intensity Then it starts to rain.
Be careful how deeply you look into people. The most negative emotions run skin-deep. As you get under their skin, you start to meet their motivations, their desires and their shortcomings. You should probably stop right there. Because any deeper and you come face to face with their fears, their…
@Swetha: Yes, nothing hurts worse than shattered hopes. Someone wise once told me, “The experience of a shattered dream is one that ages a person.” And yet, I think, when you lose hope, what else is left to do in life?
@Anu: That’s profound.
When you don’t know where you’re going, you can never get lost. You’ll always get SOMEWHERE.
I have realised, Hope leads to expectations, expectations lead to being let down, which leads to misery, you realise you hit a new low. Then the whole journey of again being lost and try to get over the bottom less pit… Leads to working on hope.
Off late I’m scared to Hope!