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.
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.
The Novelty Girl. The Character In Someone Else’s Coming of Age Story. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl. The Guilty Pleasure. The Bucket-list Woman. Names I’ve been called.
I usually avoid religious references. But what are myths but great stories of power? I picked Happiness for today. And there was only one character to portray its essence.
Hate, violence, abuse – these breed more of their own when left unchecked. I say this stops with me.
10 September 2004 When I was a child I’d stand at the window that the adults looked out of with so much ease. Sometimes an indulgent adult would pick me up to look out and then with an “ooof” put me back since I was ‘too old’ to be carried….
A friend shared a pic of a poached egg and it began a conversation about food I never thought I’d be in. I am learning that food is so much more than fuel.
I’m enjoying the company of books & plants. For the first time these don’t feel like escape from the loneliness between men. It makes my past feel like vertigo.
@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!