The audacity of hope

What would a man be without hope? Nothing has guaranteed the survival of our species more than that rare quality of hoping for the best at times when, reasonably,
the opposite should be done. Once the mechanism is activated, it becomes naturally in uslike breathing, and nothing can shake a man from the ground he has gained there in his strength
internal.

That conviction and that empowering hope can be the difference between life and death, between medicine and misfortune, between success and failure. It has been proven that up to
terminally ill which keep hope when he medically shouldn’t, he manages to make even his already sealed fate more bearable. Finally, just forward in time to whatever
we are born and – they will think – no one is eternal.

Among the rare qualities of wisdom that King Solomon was able to develop he was the one he turned to when times were not in his favor; a quality of resignation and patience, which he valued so highly that he had it engraved within the ring of his ring, with the following words: “This too shall pass.” Thus he left in the hands of the material laws of fate, or the predisposed burning of Providence, what he could not intervene in. Epictetus recommended the same thingbequeathing to posterity that illuminated path for the descent of our anxieties amid the turbulent flights of life. “There is only one way,” says the philosopher. it leads to happiness, and it consists in ceasing to worry about things that are beyond our will.” It’s easy to say; hard to do, many will say. However, How many sphygmomanometers would be packed in boxes if we consistently adopted this motto in our daily life!

Since we left the house, we should know that there are things we cannot control: traffic and weather, the mood and rudeness of others, markets and bag, Elon Musk and his extravagances. In short, the list would cover the entire text you are reading now. What we can keep within the radius of what is ours is how we react to these things; and more than a reaction, which is almost a chemical effect that requires a lot of energy on our part, we simply have to understand that these things are there, as part of life, as part of the landscape, as part of the gravity that governs all matter.

The speech even seems worn out, and today it is present in hundreds of millions of internet pages and yetWhy do we all err on the path of stubborn stubbornness, rejecting that knowledge? Simply because as a species we already carry hope with us, even if it is not realized or professed. there is hope
stored in our genes, and it pretty much is biological.

Without it, humanity would have already committed mass suicide and disappeared; Without it, no child would survive more than a few hours without the care of a mother’s warmth, in most cases, or the warm incubators that society provides today, even though they are absent from filial love. Until modern times, giving birth represented a significant danger and right for all women. Among the Catholics, the priest was always on the lookout for calls from relatives of the mother, because it was known that there was a high possibility that the product, and not even the mother, would survive this test.

Likewise, every birthday was a real feat for men, because even an abscess or fever might open that dark door of the tomb. But the man had the audacity to hope in him and he had the courage to love what he could lose in a moment. If hope is already encoded in one, perhaps the key is to develop it, nurture it, and always practice it.

While our generation, from television and from the video he demanded immediate compensation; these current ones are swimming in a riot of instant answers, undeniable in the face of the great Google.

To illustrate them and ourselves, let us consider a clear example of that boldness of hope reflected in recent events. Barak Obama said to himself
myself every day since I was a child “I want to be the president of the united states“; African American, modest extracts, with first and last name of Muslim origin. He did it, despite
manifest impossibilities, and he even wrote a work on the subject under the title “Audacity of Hope”.