Keeping Hope

Expectation, on the outset, sure looks a lot like hope – but it's functionally a killer of the latter. Hope is the belief, unfounded or not, that things will get better by some as-of-yet unknown method. But expectation has already imagined the only possible solution, and will accept no other outcome. On all my little adventures, I've found that keeping hope is the only healthy outlook. Maybe I'll discover something stunning, who knows? Or it could amount to nothing more than hours of hopping rocks; pushing through tangled branches. Hope is about keeping my eyes open, making an effort, getting myself in the path of something thrilling. The pull of daily potential, fulfilled or not. I take much the same approach with my career. I've had a lot of little deals that didn't go through, massive ebbs and flows in my online audience. But hope has kept me fixed on every little success. I'm never caught up long with what I think should happen.

 

June 19, 2024

Morden, Nova Scotia

 

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