✅Hope influences our emotions, thoughts, and actions.
✅When you're hopeful you feel more capable of reaching goals and this, in turn, translates into confidence and engagement.
✅One effective method is to act as if your desired goals were feasible, no matter how unrealistic they seem.
✅Taking that first step is crucial. If you never try, you'll certainly never succeed.
✅Hope is especially important when times are bad, so it must be fostered and cultivated. What are your thoughts on hope?
Kindly Share: your opinions, research findings, and anything related to the topic!
President Obama wrote a book titled the audacity of hope. This is important because we need hope to achieve anything in life. It is what propels us to get out of bed every morning.
Dear Mohammed Kemal ,
No! Well, life is difficult. There are many obstacles. One has to keep getting closer to those goals, amidst all the inevitable twists and turns of life. Hope allows people to approach problems with a mindset and strategy-set suitable to success, thereby increasing the chances they will actually accomplish their goals.
Regards!
Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
Dear Len Leonid Mizrah - short and precise answer! Thank you for your contribution to the discussion!!!
Dear Mohammed Kemal ,
First of all, I feel to thank you so much for your question so full of emotional meaning and so useful and helpful to reflect and meditate on how important Emotion is in our Life.
My answer is NO, absolutely not. The reason consists of a simple aspect: living a life without hope means living a non-life. Facing difficulties and negative emotions without hope would sadly mean to survive.
In my modest opinion, being humans, we are not programmed to manage a life without hope, because we have a double value and meaning: rational sphere and emotional sphere. Thus, we could not. We try to do that during our bad periods, but all that can't be something to be lived and faced permanently.
Best regards,
Antonella
1/ The people do not exist as an economically equal unit, some people live better, some worse. "
2/ Hope" is a flexible term which means hope for a better life for those who already live in secure conditions. The very rich are plagued by the hope that they will not suddenly lose their money and their power, they are the unluckiest.
3/ And then there are the critically ill, the maltreated, the tortured: they hope for a quick death.
4/ As I said, hope is everywhere, but this hope is quite different.
"Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/193469-man-can-live-about-forty-days-without-food-about-three
we cannot live with out hopes because it gives us energy to do something to gain something
In my view, hope is a waiting for someone's intervention, help, assistance etc. I prefer to rely mosly on my own strength. Therefore, I think not in opposition of categories hope - hopelessness, but rather action - result.
yes, people can survive without hope. But they certainly cannot thrive in its absence.
It doe snot matter how and where hope might appear, but without it there is no future.
Hope gives us the reason to keep pushing on, stay in the fight, and seeing the light. "Never surrender, never give in, never let the enemy win." Churchill
Can people live without hope? Yes/No and why?
If human beings are subject to various motivation theories, expectancy theory etc. then personally I think "No" i.e. people can't live without hope even though some hopes are just wishful thinking e.g. hopeful for miracle happens during impossible conditions e.g. a patient under coma for a long time, criminals put into death sentence / life imprisonment without parole etc. Personally I find that without hope a person doesn't know / uncertain how to chart his / her next step in life. Also we find that some people lacking hope also committed suicide - this indicates how important "hope" is in our lives.
But more importantly, would like to know is there any empirical research / test to provide evidence that a man can live without hope?
Strange what is hope about, sometimes the simple actions and activities of some persons make the difference in others life.
Definitely people could live without hope. However, they certainly have a different taste life with hopes!
Yes, people can make living without hope, i know many individuals, including myself, for whom living is an act of compulsion and fulfilling some responsibilities, i in my opinion such a way of living cannot be called ' living ' in strict sense of word, a life worthwhile is a life of hope and despair and interplay beetween them, in absence of hope a person's existence becomes a burden, a walking dead ( zombie) in a metaphorical sense .
A good life requires hope, a loving family, good friends, and money.
Vadim S. Gorshkov I don't think your categories hope vs hopeless and action vs result are antithetical to one another. Why would one act without hoping for the desired result? And some programs of action should be abandoned when, based on accumulated poor results or fresh understandings, they can reasonably be regarded as having become hopeless endeavors or endeavors based on false hopes.
Karl Pfeifer
I agree with you in many ways, but not in everything. I meant hope in the absence of real action - this is not a rare case. This is rather briefly expressed in an old Jewish joke.
A Jew complains to God: Poverty, a bunch of children, I don’t have anything, give me, Lord, at least a win in the lottery! And suddenly he heard the Voice: I heard you!
A rather long time passes, the Jew prays again: Nothing changes, poverty, children ... And again he hears a voice: Buy at least a lottery ticket ...
A line from old Russian poems written by M. Lomonosov in the mid-18th century sounded like this: "The science feeds young men, gives joy to old ones ..." Witling (it is not known who and when) remade it: "The hopes feeds young men..."
And this phrase entered into folklore. The attitude to the concept of "hope" is very ironic.
In the Russian tradition, hope is always associated with luck, and not with reward for hard labor or other result of own activity. Therefore, often hope is opposed to expectation. So, we say: "lucky is those who are lucubrate" (the translation is very approximate, in the original there is also a pun) or "Hope to God, but don’t be fooled".
President Obama wrote a book titled the audacity of hope. This is important because we need hope to achieve anything in life. It is what propels us to get out of bed every morning.
Hope is what we have which no one can take away. Without hope we are no longer alive and life is meaningless. Hope is a cure for many of our ills.
When people lose hope, they become desperate. And as is often the case, taking a moral stance is an ill-afforded luxury. So, yes, people can survive without hope. But they certainly cannot thrive in its absence.
Yes! People can live in hopelessness. When hope about certain situations are completely lost. For instance, after being hopeful for a corruption free or reduced society for a long time and it doesn't happen. The hope lingers for a long time and never happens. One is bound lose it and fall into pessimism. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. It does not kill anyone.
The answer is No. It's the hope of better tomorrow that is prompting us to do what we are doing now.
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.”
― Hal Lindsey
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