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[markdohle]

Why do we hope?

I was sitting today thinking about the past,
not my past,

no,

the far past,
thousands of years ago,
so many lives,
lived fully,
over in a flash and mostly forgotten;
it makes me wonder,
what is left for us after we ourselves go?

We to will be looked upon as ancients,
a culture now lost in the sands of antiquity,
their anthropologist poking among our ruins,
our names forgotten,
all of our fears and anxious concerns gone.

I wonder at times why we bother,
perhaps it is because we believe there is more,
or hope there is,
is that not what faith is about,
making a choice to trust and move forward,
believing all this,
our process of living and dying,
actually has meaning?

Even if we know we could be wrong?

Why do we hope?

Maybe we do because we are responding
to an invitation to simply trust.

[Still Waters]

markdohle, on 06 May 2012 - 09:05 PM, said:

I wonder at times why we bother,
perhaps it is because we believe there is more,
or hope there is,
is that not what faith is about,
making a choice to trust and move forward,
believing all this,
our process of living and dying,
actually has meaning?

Even if we know we could be wrong?

Why do we hope?

We hope because we care. We care about what happens to us and to those we leave behind. Whatever the situation we find ourselves in, there'll always be the need to hope.

[Mistydawn]

I tend to think we "hope" because the alternative is opting out. Without hope, we are lost, so it gives us the excuse to keep going..

Edited by Mistydawn, 07 May 2012 - 07:22 PM.

[Purifier]

This is actually not bad. Got me to thinking about what might happen in the future, after we're all long gone. Not sure if that was one thing you were aiming for, but after reading it, that's what I thought about for the most part.

[Beastly Decimal]

Beautiful, Mark, simply beautiful...

[markdohle]

Still Waters, on 07 May 2012 - 02:16 PM, said:

We hope because we care. We care about what happens to us and to those we leave behind. Whatever the situation we find ourselves in, there'll always be the need to hope.

Wise words, as usual thanks for sharing my friend.

peace
mark

Mistydawn, on 07 May 2012 - 07:21 PM, said:

I tend to think we "hope" because the alternative is opting out. Without hope, we are lost, so it gives us the excuse to keep going..

Yes true, it is a choice, life is hard, hope helps us get through the day and night as well....along with humor ;-).

peace
mark

Purifier, on 08 May 2012 - 01:14 AM, said:

This is actually not bad. Got me to thinking about what might happen in the future, after we're all long gone. Not sure if that was one thing you were aiming for, but after reading it, that's what I thought about for the most part.

I am glad it got you thinking my friend.....we have a relationship with whatever we read, we bring our lives to the page I believe.

peace
mark

Beastly Decimal, on 08 May 2012 - 09:34 PM, said:

Beautiful, Mark, simply beautiful...

Thank you very much.

peace
mark