The Benefit Of Giving Up Hope

Losing all hope was freedom.” ~Edward Norton in Fight Club

My latest realization is just opposite to what I have been believing through-out my life, up until now, and it is: Stop hoping and fearing, let the things happen as they are, but handle every unfolding situation with as much positivity as you can.

Once we stop, hoping and fearing - that we do every minute about everything in life and waste our mental energy - and let the flow of life takes us to the pre-determined destination, the nectar of peace and happiness starts filling our body, mind and soul. 

I completey agree with what Dr. Jessica Del Pozo has written in her eye-opening article 'The Benefits of Giving Up Hope' published in 'The Psychology Today' - "Hopelessness may help you stop trying to control everything. Hopeless may be a doorway to change as you trust the space left once you give up hope that this particular thing you want will get better. Maybe hopelessness happens just before a revolution."

She adds further - 

"Four Potential Down-Sides to Hope:

1.Hope can come loaded with expectations, expectations that are actually premeditated resentments.

2. Hope can be a way to avoid feeling something painful, preventing us from feeling sadness, thus keeping us stuck under its warm blanket.

3. We can cling to hope and even become addicted to it, preventing us from taking action toward something new.

4. Hope can be a shiny lacquer masking fear and uncertainty, attempting to restore a false sense of control."

You may read the article here: https://lnkd.in/dDs3TeSj

In my opinin: Our hope for a great future or the fear of a dreadful time ahead is not going to make it that way. Because, things will happen as they are supposed to. So keep taking actions, while facing every life developments without hope and fear, and leave the rest onto the hands of Destiny.

However, there is nothing wrong in pursuing our dreams, since hope is a feeling of expectation for a particular thing to happen and dream is a cherished ambition.

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Photo by Rodolfo Clix

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