Discussion Hope is scary

[konstantine_217]

This may be offensive for those who truly have lost all hope for a decent life and would do anything not to feel hopeless. This is because, personally, every time I get a bit of hope for the future/rehabilitation I try to get me back into my usual mood and get rid of it. I hate me for this. I see hope almost like a trap and I'm sure I'll be hurt again. However this feeling is less and less often as most of the time I'm hopeless

Thx for reading and sorry for any grammatical mistakes. Just wanted to get rid of this thought

 

[Some place nice]

Hope is a scary thing, you're not wrong. If you want hope you are gonna get hurt and it will hurt a lot, but there is no life without a little suffering. Is a little suffering worth it to you? I hope you can make the right decision, whatever it may be.

 

[WAITING TO DIE]

Hope is a delusion and it causes more problems later on because life rarely ever works out for most people.

 

[FuneralCry]

I certainly believe that any hope in this cruel existence just exists to be taken away and lead to more suffering, the way that you feel is understandable, I see any hope as a delusion, existence will always be hopeless to me.

 

[Undertow Mermaid]

I believe life and the universe is about balance, and you need hope to have suffering otherwise it's not hope anymore, it's just a state of being. Cliché I know, but in season 6 of Buffy after she comes back from what we can presume is heaven and they have this big musical demon causing everyone to burst out in song -- Spike sings to her in reply to her own hopelessness...

"Life's not a song.
Life isn't bliss, life is just this, it's living.
You'll get along,
The pain that you feel, you only can heal by living.
You have to go on living.
So one of us is living."

I dunno I think back to this line sometimes, he's right in a way -- the only hope you have of ever being happy is by living. You'll never achieve true happiness even when you're dead, because you'll be nothing you won't be around to ever have that "happy." That's what hope is, the chance, the belief you could be happy even if for a brief moment in time, but you have to be living to experience it. Only the living have hope.

 

[todeswunsch]

Hope is just another world for the fear of accepting reality as it is

 

[Endoflifecomestoall]

I have none. I have msa, a neurological disease
I have no hope I have msa, a neurological condition
I have no hope I have msa, a neurological condition

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yes, I relate to this. I feel scared when I feel hopeful or particularly happy because I know the fall will hurt more. The worst I've felt in life has been after having hope. Yet, it's hard to do anything new without a little bit of it. I just try and temper it with reason now- things may look hopeful now but- just wait and see- it's bound to turn to shit!