When things are down or looking bad humans always turns to hope, but what can hope do? People see hope in two ways, the positive way being that hope is good and it acts as comfort to a person in need. The other is that hope is for the delusional and hope is just a buffer, preventing the taking of action, that stalls person from the inevitable. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, hope is shown through many of the characters, from Laila's hope that Rasheed would leave her alone or her hope that she could get her daughter back from the orphanage. Both were the good types of hope that Laila truly believed would come true. The delusional type of hope was shown through Nana, Mariam's mother, Nana hoped that Mariam would stay away from her father but she knew it would never happen and so her hopes were just a placebo for the truth. Hope is still relevant today because hope is felt by everyone, whether it's a low-level business employee hoping for a promotion or the thousands of Syrian's hoping for food and shelter in the aftermath of their civil war, hope is everywhere.
In my life I can't even put the semblance of a number to the number of times that I have hoped for something. From a child to now I've always hoped for something for Christmas, and I'm I'll hope for something till I die. In my opinion hope is always a good thing. To me hope is like never giving up on something condensed into one feeling. To me hope is not delusional but a driving factor that gets things done. Basically, hope is what hard workers are made of and it's the hard workers of the world that get things done.
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