• dohpaz42@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    That’s not hope. If anything, it’s spite. Hope is what we tell ourselves to convince ourselves some uncertainty might not be so bad.

    I hope the girl I like likes me back.

    I hope I don’t oversleep in the morning and miss my interview.

    I hope this comment won’t be lost on the readers.

    • Zensate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Hope is an attempt to fight off the idea of hopelesness, which is itself an illusion. So hope is not only an illusion in the second degree, but the very thing that keeps hopelessness from being exposed. It is no wonder that Hope was the greatest curse to escape Pandora’s Box.