Today

Today I’m wondering what it is about day six that’s got me down.

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And now it’s day seven.

Hope is a strange concept. I think that it is utterly useless. If you’re deep in a hole, you’ll likely hope that someone throws you a rope. If you’re lucky, someone will. If you’re very lucky, they’ll keep a hold on the other end, or better yet, take a few moments to tie it off to something so that you can pull yourself out. I guess my point is that hope is a gamble where all the stakes are yours, and winning is, more often than not, an accident. A happy accident, certainly, and thus extremely rare.

Sometimes you get lucky and you receive grace instead, but I think luck has more to do with making good choices more often, than anything else.

So what about when hope fails you? What are you left with? You’re left with everything that you had before you started hoping, with the addition of disappointment. Enough of that, and you’ve got yourself despondency and apathy, which sounds a lot like hopelessness.

Hope is a great drug, but it’ll let you down like one.

If you need hope, things have already gotten out of hand.

 Vision is better.

Vision is real, like math. With a vision you can take what you know, and extrapolate, building a path towards what you want, and can see in your mind’s eye. It takes what is real and translates it into what is possible by way of consistent and positive action in the right direction. Ironically, all that is a pretty good foundation for hope.

It doesn’t have to be much, and it doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done.

Like this.