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.
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@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!