According to Google, hope is to “have a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen,” and therefore Americans are known as failures all around the world because everyone believes in the American dream. Hope is a dangerous and moronic word that teaches people they can better their lives with hard work and persistence. But in the end your either on top or on bottom and who would put themselves in a situation where there is a high chance of failure and a small chance of victory. Susan K Perry states in “Can Hope Be Bad” published in 2013, “that hope is a positive emotional force for creating a desired future”, but in reality, people don’t have the power to better themselves anyway, why try to change gods image of man. The
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Perry talks about how “wishing is useless” because you don’t have to take any action and you don’t work towards a cause and believe in something special like one would with hope (Perry, 2013). But what she doesn’t talk about is the advantages of wishing, such as there is no work put into it, no stress, and if one’s wish doesn’t come true then they the blame would be put on everyone else since because they never lifted a finger so they couldn’t have screwed up anything. Along with wishing comes believing in luck, which is just as powerful as wishing and much more beneficial than hope. Hodali talks about how the definition of luck is “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions” (Hodali, 2010). Getting lucky has a much better feeling than working hard and striving for the outcome you desire because with luck no work is involved and one is just handed success. Imagine one goes to the local DMV and wins a free car for being the tenth customer of the day, that would-be luck. Hodali continues to talk about how “hope is evil, and hopelessness is a blessing in disguise”, this is because hopelessness leads to acceptance and it is a natural part of life (Hodali, 2010). Luck trumps hope in every way by the simple factors that one doesn’t have to work, be determined, or be dedicated to come out on
Perry talks about how “wishing is useless” because you don’t have to take any action and you don’t work towards a cause and believe in something special like one would with hope (Perry, 2013). But what she doesn’t talk about is the advantages of wishing, such as there is no work put into it, no stress, and if one’s wish doesn’t come true then they the blame would be put on everyone else since because they never lifted a finger so they couldn’t have screwed up anything. Along with wishing comes believing in luck, which is just as powerful as wishing and much more beneficial than hope. Hodali talks about how the definition of luck is “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions” (Hodali, 2010). Getting lucky has a much better feeling than working hard and striving for the outcome you desire because with luck no work is involved and one is just handed success. Imagine one goes to the local DMV and wins a free car for being the tenth customer of the day, that would-be luck. Hodali continues to talk about how “hope is evil, and hopelessness is a blessing in disguise”, this is because hopelessness leads to acceptance and it is a natural part of life (Hodali, 2010). Luck trumps hope in every way by the simple factors that one doesn’t have to work, be determined, or be dedicated to come out on