HOPE

We all deal with hard things, some more than others, but hope keeps us going and encourages us to hang on. It is indispensable in our lives. If we help one another in our darkest times, then hope is alive that better times will follow. My family gives me hope, cheers me up when I’m sad, and cares about me. This is a very precious gift to me.
Today, I realized how easy it is to shut down and shut people out. Sometimes, when one person in a specific group has hurt us, we tend to shut down the group. Why do we do it? Hmm, maybe because it is much easier to lock the door on an entire group than to recognize that we have been injured by one individual. It is my belief that we have to try to keep the channels open, not to generalize or condemn an entire group for the evils of one person.
Let’s think of social media where we are exposed to many people and have the illusion that we know them, that we are friends with them. Lurking among the many people we meet online, there are some bad ones and many good ones. Social media can be so invasive, we are bombarded by ideas and messages from people who may be of good will or not. We have to learn to avoid and ignore the bad ones and remember that there are good people in the world too. Social media creates illusions with people you don’t know. We need to be wise and cautious about that.
I hope you will have an easy, happy week, and good things will come your way when you least expected.