I have been feeling very hopeless about many things lately. So I guess maybe my earlier post might have been made more out of a general sense of despair, rather than a specific negitivity towards a cure. It's not that I don't want to feel hopeful about potential cures. I am just finding it very hard to find a spark of hope anywhere in my life at the moment. I know in my heart that is not the reality of things, but sometimes I think the mind is more powerful than the heart. Or, at the very least, the mind is capable of playing more powerful tricks with one's emotions. I guess it's almost a case that the ideas of a cure and of the future are linked together in my mind. I am not feeling all that positive towards the future in general. So that pessimism automatically transfers on to any ideas I have about cures. It's not rational. But rationality is not one of my strengths at the moment. I don't even know if that makes sense...
Thank you diane. That was a lovely story and I have printed it off. Also thank you John. I had read that poem before but forgot about it. It made me smile and I printed it off as well. Jen thanks to you too. I hear what you are saying.
I didn't reply earlier in the day when I first read this because I needed time to think about what you wrote Dr. Young. The whole notion of what "hope" means has been weighing heavily on me lately. But what you wrote helped me make a little headway through my confusion. I don't know if my rambling first paragraph reflects that. But what you wrote helped me a great deal. Thank you.
I guess maybe I am just going through something right now where any kind of hope seems too painful to contemplate. It's easier to put up a wall. Then there is no pain. But you are right, one can't stop there.
Thank you diane. That was a lovely story and I have printed it off. Also thank you John. I had read that poem before but forgot about it. It made me smile and I printed it off as well. Jen thanks to you too. I hear what you are saying.
Originally posted by Wise Young
Real hope is not painful. It is simply determination to succeed, the knowledge in one's heart that one must succeed.
Wise.
Wise.
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