Hope is a powerful motivator which has the potential to touch the lives of every being on this planet. None of us are immune from falling into difficult times and that plight is something we all have in common. Another thing we all have in common is the ability to choose how we are going to react to the difficult times when they come. Will we allow them to destroy our hope for the future or will we decide to view them as a learning experience meant to help us as we continue to move forward with hope that the best is yet to come. A sad reality for those who lose hope and give up is the realization that had they kept going just a little farther the success they desired could have been theirs. An example of this would be with my personal experiences
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"You chatter like a pair of monkeys," said Kali’s husband, "with less sense. What use to talk of ‘exchange’ and so forth? Their life is theirs and yours is yours; neither change nor exchange is possible (Markandaya, ????)." My experience with losing hope is similar to this in the fact that I was comparing my skills against someone else’s. This comparison cost me my desire to play the sport of basketball and ultimately took a toll on the joy in my life. Instead of comparing my skills to his, I could have simply admired his and congratulated him on his improvement. Perhaps it would have then served as motivation for me to improve my game but alas it is now a missed opportunity. Rukmani could have attempted to simply admire her new life when she first moved to the village with Nathan. She was comparing her new very modest mud hut beside a paddy field to her large house back in her home village. This brings her to the verge of tears but this could have been avoided if she hadn’t compared her old life to her new one. She could have just accepted the new life with open arms and a hopeful attitude in order to make the best of the situation but instead she chose to be judgemental and makes the situation appear worse than it really
"You chatter like a pair of monkeys," said Kali’s husband, "with less sense. What use to talk of ‘exchange’ and so forth? Their life is theirs and yours is yours; neither change nor exchange is possible (Markandaya, ????)." My experience with losing hope is similar to this in the fact that I was comparing my skills against someone else’s. This comparison cost me my desire to play the sport of basketball and ultimately took a toll on the joy in my life. Instead of comparing my skills to his, I could have simply admired his and congratulated him on his improvement. Perhaps it would have then served as motivation for me to improve my game but alas it is now a missed opportunity. Rukmani could have attempted to simply admire her new life when she first moved to the village with Nathan. She was comparing her new very modest mud hut beside a paddy field to her large house back in her home village. This brings her to the verge of tears but this could have been avoided if she hadn’t compared her old life to her new one. She could have just accepted the new life with open arms and a hopeful attitude in order to make the best of the situation but instead she chose to be judgemental and makes the situation appear worse than it really