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Why do people pin their actions, thoughts, and philosophies on a mere word – HOPE?

Come to think of it, we dispute much in our daily lives – the supernatural, the scientifically-unproven, the words of an uneducated child, and much more. Would you believe the foreign garbage collector who earns several dollars a day that there was a bag of gold inside the nearby electrical riser under your block of flats?

Then why don’t we dispute hope? Yet we actually build our lives on it? Silly, isn’t it? (and they still say humans reason well compared to other animals)

As with always, when chim chim words are used, it is always fair to write a brief definition, just in case they get misintepreted. I really don’t want any chicken heads hung outside my door, please, thank you:

fal·la·cy (făl’ə-sē)
n., pl. -cies.

1. 1. A false notion.
2. 2. A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
3. 3. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.
4. 4. The quality of being deceptive.

(Adapted from Answers.com)

Personally, I find options 1, 2, and 4 slightly, errr, harsh. Hence, we shall use option 3 for our discussion here. I don’t really think something should be labeled so definitely without further argument, anyway. Good right, me? TRYING to be fair and all.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness probably means that people reason or belief wrongly due to… er, Hope. Lets take expectations as an example – People build their expectations based on a mix of logical thinking, self-image, ideology. What tells them how far these expectations could stretch would be Hope, though.

Either it stays as an expectation with little or no hope and never said out, or it goes through alot of hope and faith and is put to the person him/herself.

That said, how much do you think hope plays in every little part of your life – or even just the way you think and what you want?

If at this point, I still fail to convince you, allow me to use quotes from others to do so:

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” – Prison Break Season 1 (Actually, this was a biased quote, because I’m addicted to that TV series – and have high HOPES for it =X.)

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein (Notice how tomorrow is entirely made up of hope itself? Think about it – since when was the future predictable? What is the very least we could do?)

Now, let me ask you something – when was the last time someone let you down? Someone told you that he or she would do something you but failed to do so? or maybe someone promised you something, but broke that promise you were really hoping they would keep? or someone giving you much false hope which really, really hurt, when it sunk into you?

That sucks, doesn’t it? The whole thing on hope – when its turned negatively against you. The feeling digs in you, and you no longer want to trust that someone who let you down.. and with that lost trust, comes along other scenarios, such as lost confidence, lost interest, and among many others – you might end up losing that person or group, or thing as a whole, after all.

Think about it, it all makes sense. What’s the core problem of your quarrels? What started it? What INITIATED it? Was it the other party? Or was it HOPE itself which did it to you? Are you having too high expectations of people around you, or even yourself?

(This article was left half written by me the other day, because I fell asleep on my laptop at who knows what time – so I completed today. However, some thoughts got lost in the meantime while I was busy thinking about dirty, sorry, I mean, clean, things )