There is that light at the end of the tunnel :-)!

Life is not so easy, just not easy, especially when one is down and does not see tomorrow. There is only one thing that keeps all of us going and that is seemingly a dim light at the end of the dark tunnel. Hope, as we call it.

Hope is nothing but a future phenomenon which seems to have better surviving set of factors than today.

It, I understand, is an established fact that youth is better than old, in almost every way. But why?

It is not because body is better when you are young, not because stress is not so frightening, not because responsibilities are less; these are only the reasons we think exist. The fact is different. It is because we have more hope at younger age, we have more tomorrows to look at. It is because we know in our youth that we still have time to do something about our dreams, our goals. As we reach older stage, we find less hope. Then at old age we start feeling that while we have already walked so many years and still could not reach the dim light at the end of the tunnel; surely then it must be far away, or, it could be as delusive and misleading an end as horizon, where it looks near but it never comes. We lose the hope then. We accept that it cannot get any better. We get ready to die – to go to a world where there is hope.

We do not need love to pull us, we do not need money to keep us, we  do not need strength to push us – we just need hope for tomorrow. Hope has it all; it has love, it has money, it has strength and much much more.

Had it been so that money/wealth can keep us going, no billionaire would have died ever. They die because they do not see tomorrow better than their today, they too want to change their world then, to play a new game, where, they have tomorrows- better ones. Don’t you think if someone is terminally ill and you tell him that there is a new cure which has just arrived and it can save him, only if he can wait till tomorrow ( i.e. giving him hope till tomorrow), he would pull all his strength to reach that tomorrow. A child beggar of age 2-3 years does not get proper food, proper shelter, proper medicine but he survives because he feels, he is told, that there is “hope”. In most cases he dies after finding that there is no hope here anymore.

Man is very clever. He knows that only hope will guide him to live till tomorrow and with so much of misery and pain around where was the hope? So he created God. Sometimes I feel that the God is nothing more than actually a place where you can find different kinds of hope(s)... and you can borrow one whenever you want, that too without having to give anything in exchange.  Don’t we all do that sometimes :- borrow hope? Hope of a loving partner, hope of a family, hope of a better lifestyle, hope of debt free life, hope of a child, hope of a better tomorrow overall...

Is it possible to imitate God? Can we do something so that we can instil hope among our peers, our friends, our loved ones, our children, our people, and sometimes to strangers...can we tell them that they surely have a better tomorrow? Can we suggest that everything is going to be fine, to just have patience? Can we tell them that we are standing beside, nothing to fear, all will be okay?

Can we give hope?...sometimes?!