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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don’t, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
~~ Vaclav Havel ~~

We definitely hope that life and work has meaning though nobody has been able to establish for sure as to what that meaning might be. Perhaps we can say that work has meaning - to survive one must work! LOL. Life, on the other hand, does not lend itself to such a straight forward meaning. Nonetheless, hope makes the world go round; it’s a staple of life, everything revolves around hope. I don’t think one can even live without any hope in spite of the fact that many of our hopes get dashed to the ground.

I agree that hope is not dependent on the state of the world around us; we cling to hope even when the world around us may be falling apart. But I don’t agree that you either have hope or you don’t. Most of us have hope most of the time but all of us pass through moments or may be even days when we feel totally helpless and hopeless. Fortunately, most of us soon work our way out of that state of hopelessness and start hoping again.

Hoping for the best and dreaming big are really important ingredients for leading our lives, and we must liberally use them throughout our lives. Without hope and dreams there can be no progress, no achievement.

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