Observations/Reflections: On Hoping for Hope
Status: Dictated but Not Reviewed
Published: 02/18/10
Written: 01/26/2010
Dictated By: Flint McGlaughlin

I've written elsewhere on the human condition as it relates to uncertainty. We are incipient, and thus we can never know for sure. How does one survive in the face of such uncertainty? Hope. Hope is the only hope.

I think we underestimate the power of hope. I think the most tragic word in the English language is this: hopelessness. A man or a woman can endure indescribable horror for the sake of a tiny shred of hope. But if hope is abandoned, destruction is wrought from the inside out.