The presence of hope relies on nothing so much as faith. To hope means that you are placing faith in what is to be, it means wishing for something or some time or nameless, mysterious ideas and dreams in the future. Not quite aspirations, the basis of wishes. The little neurological firing of the synapses and diffusion of neurotransmitters that gives humans this unique feeling which we call "to have hope."
And helplessly, aimlessly, we fill our baskets with hope for the future. We dream of the future. Nothing, for many, is as seductive as the mysteries of what's to come. Because it has not occurred yet, the future is a boiling mass of possibilities and many cherishes and tries to shape.
What is possibilities then? Probability. Chances. There are an infinity of choices just as there are an infinite amount of moments in each second-to-be. You can cut time into infinite small chunks, since the carved pieces of times that we call hours and minutes doesn't except outside of our heads anyhow. Within each of these infinitely small pieces there is so much potential...for almost everything.
Humans are such goners for potentials. Hopes and potentials seem to be what half of humanity is made of. What a race of hopeless hopefuls.
Whoo, go us.
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I think hope is not necessarily bound to the future tense. At least not how I view it. I think it's more than a belief that "everything is going to be alright". I'm not sure I can properly convey what I mean.
As for faith. I'm slowly coming around to the conclusion that hope and faith are the same thing. A belief against reason and logic. Which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with people's lives in the future or their... hopes for the future. But more with them searching for sometihng to touch bases with.
I think that it's our only and very small connection to our soul. If we really are a piece of something bigger then to be apart from well everything would cause us to be lost and confused. I mean it's our nature. Free will aside. Which I guess makes sense. With the whole people connecting thing. And soul mates. Umm okay. I got off topic.
The point is that hope/faith proves that we are more than just a sum of parts. That 1+1 actually comes out to nowhere close to two. So humanity's potential is really locked/held in itself. All we can do is believe. And because we cannot comprehed the belief in oneself and in each other - we look for outlets for our belief, gods, idols, and so forth.
But you know all this stuff. And I should stop ranting.
btw checked the layout and it looks fine now. Thanks. Sorry about the double major thing, it would have been really cool if you could do it.
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