Keep Hope Is Important
What does hope actually mean? That is a question I ask myself sometimes. Do I have hope?
According to the Oxford dictionary:
Verb: want something to happen or to be the case. Mass noun: a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen. Count noun: a person or thing that may help or save someone, grounds for believing that something good may happen. Archaic: a feeling of trust. With infinitive: intend if possible to do something.
It is difficult to get hope, or maybe to keep up the hope you have. Maybe you lost your hope through the life experiences you got. I will advise you to keep hope in everything you do. Hope is important to have in your life. Hope is important because you get closer to where you want to be with the goals you have.
Keep hope in your personal life, but keep also hope in your work life. You can work — in both cases — towards your goals, to where you want to be. Also who you want to be.
You hope that someone could help you to do the groceries while you recover in the hospital from an injury, so when you come home there is some food (and you don’t have to go out the first few days). But there is also hope that someone you love very will visit you when you have to stay in the hospital after the operation you got from your injury.
I believe that a lot of the world population (people living in the world) has been through something. It doesn’t matter what that is. Think about abuse, manipulation, a car accident, death of a beloved one you’re close with. But also think about beautiful evets as marriage or parties you have been to. These events have so much impact on your life. I have been there too. A lot of things happened.
I was very close to my father’s mother. I felt terrible when she died when I was fifteen years old. My grandmother’s birthday was on the second Christmas day. We always visited her after my concert with my first youth orchestra to celebrate her birthday. I had a great bond with her. I could see that she and my grandfather had been through something terrible. She never told me. But my father told me my grandfather was with the KNIL (Koninklijk Nederlands Insisch Leger. In English: Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.) He was afraid. So, I think my grandmother too. They came to The Netherlands when he was eight years old, in a big boat. My grandfather fought with the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in Indonesia. They lived in a big protected house with a nice tree (as my father remembered). Also, another family lives there. There was a wall around his house.
When my father was eight, my grandparents decided to go to The Netherlands and they gave hope to the future of their children. The hope they needed a lot. They had so much fear in Indonesia back then, I suppose. In The Netherlands they had hope.
A new start in another country or place gives us the hope we need in our lives. Hope to start over, start “another” life. With new people, with new surroundings and hopefully a better environment.
When there is a new girl in town whose parents died, that girl becomes a foster girl. When someone really cares about this girl, that person organizes events that help her and the people like her. For this girl — and the people like her — there is hope again. Just to get a future again.
Do you get what I am saying? In the world there is hope. And you don’t have to believe or follow God. You have to believe hope exists. New things do exist. “New life” does exist.
Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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