Hope and stuff...

Recently my brother posted something in his blog regarding hope, imagination and dreams. Hope was, according to me, the least important. The issue though is that it seems that both for memo and him, "Dream's" way to win the game by saying I AM HOPE was way too much, and of course there is no other way to view things, after all, what is the point of life without hope?... he he he...

Ok, I was a little bit sarcastic there, yet I want to state my point. Life as it is shows a lot of challenge for us, mostly because we tend to complicate things, and well, as tools we have several forces to aid us. Yet I believe that hope is one of the least important, hope is passive and a lot of the times leads to mediocricy.

But how?... hope is so important!!!... right?.

The problem now I believe pertains to language, since hope can be interpreted in several ways I believe. Hope is valuable as a drive tool, something to keep us going towards an end. Maybe ambition works too, or having just expectations out of life. And someone without hope or expectations is really an emty vessel taking up our air... I agree.

But still, hope leads a lot of the times to such a passice mediocre attitude!, "I hope things will get better... I hope this and that"... no, no, no. Why don't you stop hoping and start acting upon it?. Do you see my point?. It's like the difference between dreams and goals. We have such power, and our will can do wonders, yet a lot of the times hoping leads people to disassociate themselves from the problem and wait for something (rather external) to happen, and make things right.

So probably I am not against hope... but against such use of the concept or deffinition. I am up for ambition and for having goals, and if we can fit that in hope then good, but the other connotations of the word are the ones I personally dislike. Please, not the word personally.