Hope

As I am fighting to get cvs up and working here at work, I was thinking about part of my book that I was reading this morning (from page 87):

Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specifically as "believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be."

This really made me sit back and think for a little bit. Hope (as defined here) is not a blind faith that everything will be good, it's having the faith that you can make everything good. It's not an external fate or anything like that, but a belief that you are on the correct path, and it's a path that will allow you to get to your destination. Or, at least if you are not on the "correct path", you will find a way to switch. Humm... I like books that make me sit back and ponder.

Listening to: P.O.D. - Without Jah, Nothin'