Why Is Hope Essential In Life?

Discover why you should hope for a better future even when nothing seems to justify this belief.

Without hope, nothing is achieved. We need to wait for victory and joy to get to the point we want. When we expect nothing, we do nothing and achieve nothing.

However, we often doubt the possibility of seeing our wish come true. We think that people will never change or that the conditions of our lives will never improve.

The evils we face seem to be invincible. There is nothing positive about our reality that justifies the belief in the possibility to see our wish come true.

Therefore, we conclude that we must be realistic and stop being fooled by our imagination. Pessimism seems to be more suitable than optimism. Hope seems to be an illusion.

We don’t want to wait for what will never come. We fear to put all our energy into unfounded hope and then face a bitter disappointment. We’d rather be prepared for failure and suffering than wait for the dubious happiness that seems so unlikely to come.

However, if we don’t believe in miracles, we will never see any miracle happen.

Therefore, we need to believe in the existence of a spiritual reality that is superior to physical reality. Hope depends on faith in the existence of a higher power that surpasses the limitations of the material world.

Without faith in the existence of God, hope seems to be a utopia, but faith in the existence of God is also very difficult.

Atheism seems to be more realistic. Nobody has been able to prove the existence of God with certainty. There are several debates among philosophers, religionists, and scientists about this matter.

Some believe that God’s existence is beyond question, while others believe that God’s existence is not necessary for us to explain how our universe and our planet were formed.

I became very interested in this question when I lost faith in the existence of God when I faced a tragic car accident when I was a teenager. I went through six years of atheism until I came to the point of admitting the possibility of God’s existence by acknowledging that I was ignorant and couldn’t be sure of anything.

I recovered my faith in the existence of God when I learned how to translate the meaning of dreams thanks to Carl Jung’s method of dream interpretation and I saw that the literary book I had been writing during my atheism contained many dream symbols. Jung had interpreted the symbolic meaning of various literary works the same way he had interpreted the meaning of dreams. So, I interpreted the symbolic meaning of my book like him.

To my great surprise, the symbolic meaning of my literary book made me regain faith in the existence of God, as I understood that He did not abandon me despite having been abandoned by me. The book I wrote for six years worked as psychotherapy for me and taught me many things.

Thanks to the symbolism contained in my literary work, I was able to understand the interpretation of dreams much better and I was even able to explain the meaning of several dream symbols that Jung was unable to precisely define. I considered what happened to me a real miracle.

I don’t think I can prove the existence of God in this article, but I hope I can show you that it’s not absurd for you to believe in the possibility of seeing a miracle happen in your life, just as it happened in mine.

You only have to believe in the possibility of seeing a miracle happen for it to happen, even if you don’t have faith in the existence of God.