On Hope

Posted by admin on Nov 11, 2008 in life | 0 comments

“For many months, we’ve been teased, even derided for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”

Barrack Obama’s Iowa Victory Speech 4th Jan 2008.

For someone who lived his life depending on hope more than anything for the past five months, this is a passage that reads like all great inspiring texts. Although in a totally irrelevant context, words have powers that heal, and add new fuel to a withering fire at a time when somebody’s faith has been put repeatedly under the test.

At times of atrocity the power of hope and dreams become most apparent. The greatness in Obama’s speeches lies in how he reminds people the importance of believing in hope again, that entire nations were built upon the foundation of hopes and dreams, that civilizations were propelled forward because individuals dared to hope and acted accordingly.

If only we could all share a bit of that belief and faith, we probably would become stronger and more apt in dealing with the miseries and challenges that drag us down.

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