Journal 52: Hopes?

Hope is a very interesting aspect of human emotions. Some people can be greatly helped by hope; for example, when a person feels suicidal and feels like the world is hounding him and that there is no more incentives in living, hope can bring that person back up standing and escape a suicidal fate and maybe eventually get better and become successful. However, there is also a bad side of hope. For example, one can be hoping for something great to happen, maybe the arrival of a loved one or finding of a treasure, either way, the feeling of not getting what was expected is a feeling worse than simply not getting the same exact thing. The higher your expectation is the higher you fall. Expectation is like roller coaster, the higher and faster it is the better it is and the more pleasure you derive from the ride, however, if the roller coaster derails, if the hope and expectation wasn't the same as reality, the harder you will fall from the roller coaster, the more pain, the more disparity, the more agonizing it will be. Hopes sometimes can make you feel more pain or maybe it could alleviate pain. Another use of hope is in school. People always hope that they could do the homework with the same quality tomorrow so they never do the work the day assigned unless the due date is the next day.