Here's looking at you, hope!

Hope comes into play when our circumstances are dire, when things are not going well . Hope literally opens us up... and removes the blinders of fear and despair and allows us to see the big picture and forces us to become creative and have a belief in a better future.

 If this is indeed true,  then there should be a hope boom going on, because globally our circumstances are dire – the entire world is paddling up that proverbial creek without paddles.

 But hope isn’t something we can build up with vitamins or food – there isn’t any bottled hope water, no 'hope in a jar'.  We have to create it, individually, painstakingly, step by step.

We have to dig deep within ourselves to find it; sifting through all the useless negatives that are strangling us like a sick vine, desiccating and withering our emotions, wringing out the last few drops of positivity that we have….if we let it.

The good news is that there is a new world opening up that's creating that big picture, and hope is alive and well in all of us; it’s just a matter of finding it within ourselves.

In the past, we paid too much attention to physical stuff, like our homes that had to be bigger and better than our neighbor’s.    We spent hours buying and selling stocks, in order to afford the next home upgrade. 

Real estate and the stock market made us feel confident – it was the all American dream and a dream that other nations also believed in and followed.

 But in the blink of an eye, it went “Poof” and the American dream is gone; fractured, yet leaving one great thing of value in its wreckage – the human brain. Our capacity to rethink our situations and solve our problems, and hopefully to see and do things differently in the future.

Jobs are now the most important thing in our lives and we have to rethink what we do and how we can do it better.  Or make a complete change, and step outside of our comfort zone and not worry about a job being below our standards,  or our  being too qualified or underqualified. 

Now’s the time to learn, to study, to open up the channels within ourselves and meet this challenge head on.

We’ve lost our homes, our stock portfolios, our big cars ….  but we’re still standing.

 We’re facing a new world where everything we valued has been devalued,  altered, broken or tossed out like yesterday’s garbage.  We need to ensure that the new world is better, and that this type of catastrophe doesn’t happen again.

We 're seeing the big picture  – we're opening up, becoming more creative, making a better future for the generations to come – and we can thank the current world situation for this positive step into a new world.

Our new world should and will be better, brighter, kinder and self-sustaining.