New year is always common with everything new, new clothes, new resolution, new day and even new hope. We let go the hopes that we held on in the past year, especially those which failed to come true. Well, as we see, some hopes are sometimes irrational, non sense, wrong and even impossible. For example, a husband who hopes his dead wife will come back to life or a kid who hopes to invent a time machine. So, by the new year comes, it’s time for us to let go the old hopes. What we fail to realize is that those hopes never really go away, those hopes never really leave us. They stay in our deepest part of heart and mind where we bury them and pretend that they have gone. But when it comes to something that will bring back our memory, such as photograph, toy, picture, places or people, those hopes will come back to the surface and we will notice that after all this time, we still have those hopes inside of us. No matter how many new years have passed, those hopes haven’t gone away from us. For some, these old hopes can be so frustrating. We want them so badly but at the same time we can’t get them. Furthermore, when we can’t take and hold the feeling anymore, we find ourselves being an ignorant people. People who are afraid of hoping because we are afraid of the failure and the depressing feeling that comes afterward. Living without hopes is like a bland life. We no longer have the purpose in our lives and we continue living our daily activities without knowing why we’re doing those and mostly without enjoying them. This kind of living will lead us into hating the life itself and unwillingness to continue living.
For some others, we have find the way to cope with these old hopes and brace them fully. Bracing old hopes means that we can open our heart, accept these old hopes and stop regretting them. When we open our heart, we brace all kinds of possible ways that can lead to the success of our old hopes, even if these ways are ways that we never expect or think to happen. We also brace these hopes to happen at any time. If they don’t become reality this year, we don’t have to forget them at all, we can still hope for them to come true next year and the year after it. For example, the husband who hoped his dead wife would come to life might find his hope come true by finding another woman who becomes his perfect and loving wife or by making his wife live in his heart and mind. And the kid who hoped to invent a time machine might find his hope come true in a form of novel, books, or movies. He doesn’t literally invents it but he does in fictional form which may lead to a great success.
Bracing old hopes is no easy thing. We humans have a huge ego and arrogance. We like to think that we’re always right and things will work out just in the way we think. We sometimes don’t consider that we can be wrong and the ways things happen can be millions. This becomes a problem with the concept of bracing old hopes because we might be faced with the success of our old hopes in a different way but since we only think our ways are the best, we will still consider the success as failures. Timing is also matter of our ego. We set ourselves to think that these hopes should happen at the time we predict. When they don’t come true on time, we think that we’ve failed and therefore refuse to continue hoping. But once we open our mind and lose the ego and arrogance of ours, we might find those hopes can still happen, maybe not on time but another time. So, in order to make hopes come true, we don’t only have to work it out but also be modest and more open minded. Everything is just the way we look at it.
Now that we will face the new year of 2011, it’s our time to both preserve old hopes and find new hopes. Just remember, both will come true in any possible way and any possible time.
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