the hopeful me

When life is going smoothly and we're getting our needs met,
it's easy to feel and be hopeful and optimistic.
Hope, love, faith, optimism are all 'easy' when LIFE is 'easy'.
The key is to find and sustain hope when life is presenting us with challenges, difficulties and obstacles.

Difficult times heighten how much of life is out of our control and this can trigger many negative feelings within us. Human beings like to be in control and like the feelings that come with the belief that they are.
The harsh reality is that, very little of life is really within our control.
It's not so much controlling life, but controlling how we respond to life.

When we are confronted with real-life issues that are overwhelming, scary, tipping over, bla bla bla...
it's easy to lose sight of hope and optimism.
It requires almost no effort or thought to feel yourself spiraling downward into fear and uncertainty and sometimes, even despair.

Think about this for a moment....
When we feel at our lowest,
and the most empty,
what's left inside?

Hope!


The point to this entry is... I'm tired of hoping for a greener path,
but at the same time, I can't afford not to hope at all.
No matter how frustrating life can be, as far as career is concerned,
I'll try my very best to inject in 'some' optimism,
that something greater IS there for me at the end of the tunnel!