Hopes

 

What if there is no more hope?

Imagine people walking around hopeless?

Life is a creation of hope. Is there any life to live for with no hope?

Two persons put their hands on marriage because of hope. Sharing the same hope and trying to make it reality. They remind each other if one of them forgets about their hope, therefore both of them cannot lose hope at the same time. If they do, then marriage fails. Divorce is another word of losing hope.

Neighbors also share hopes. They hope to have a comfortable living environment, a good place to raise their kids and get old. A good neighborhood is a place where neighbors lend their hand to neighbor who happens to lose hope. The power of hope help a neighborhood survive of flood, earthquake, eruption, and any other disaster you can mention.

Colleagues share the same hope of making a better living. One has hope for himself, another one for his family. A company can grow if the people working within share the same hope. If one employee loses hope, the other one raise him off. The synergy of employees hopes are the power of the company.

Now, imagine or nation, Indonesia…

Do people still have their hope? Does this nation empowered by the same hopes of the people?

So many people loose their hope out there. It can be of accumulated disappointment to the government, themselves, their family, or to their community. Disappoint can come from daily experiences, an event crosses on their way to the office, too much of negative news on TV and newspaper, negative talk of their friends and colleagues, and so many other stuffs. This hope-losing phenomenon is like a virus, it infects people the way virus does. From mouth to mouth, people to people, community to community it spreads. It is already so acute, so that people need antibiotics and long term therapy to recover from such illness.

The problem is: where can we get these antibiotics?

It seems so hard, but actually it is as simple as smiling. Smile is a reflection of hopes. Though it is very simple, I myself sometimes found it to be so hard. Have you notice that if you smile, the people around you also have the tendency of smiling back. It is not an expensive cost of solution, yet it can protect you of that virus and help cure other infected people.

Protecting you hopes, help others protect theirs.

So, wish me luck in doing it every day! And I wish a good luck to you also!