I have come to realize that the gap between what you might consider negative feelings and positive feelings is quite slim. Hate can be born out of love and without sadness we would probably not appreciate the importance of happiness. Let's talk about hope. A positive feeling indeed, and one that is at the core of every human being. It's a cornerstone for our survival. One might even go so far as to state that it is coded into our genes. Without it our person or what some might call the soul would be dead. We have the capacity to reason and therefore we dream of a better tomorrow. What do you think would happen if you knew that your tomorrow would be bleak? I guess you would have nothing to look forward to. You would search for whatever vermin was making you see a bleak future and try to crush it. Find a way to see some light at the end of the tunnel.That blank canvas, that is the future, you dream of filling it with beautiful portraits. You dream and hope that one day you will achieve your desires, may they be evil or good.
Maybe it is to become financially independent as many dream of nowadays. After all, the word of honey has become the world of money. You dream that one day you will get married to a beautiful wife who has been meticulously created to the last hair on her and maybe have cute little kids who grow up to be outstanding citizens. Maybe your dream is to travel all over the world or even the universe and literally leave your footprints on every corner. Perhaps it's to create a better world for humanity. Whatever it is, that grande dream that you hold on to is glued together by hope.
The fact that even hope exists beyond our graves perplexes me. Almost all, if not all religions that exist on earth have some concept of an afterlife. Whether it's hell or heaven, or maybe it's reincarnation. Humanity's fear bred hope in the form of afterlife. It's not bad anyway, after all without hope we are nothing. When we fail, we hope that we'll get another chance. If there was a Guinness word record of the most pessimistic human alive, it would be a charade.They'd be dead. It's even written in the holy books, when a door closes another one opens. Isn't that the general idea. If the said alternative door doesn't open we look elsewhere, after all, hope must be kept. It drives us. We hope even in death!