Mum and Dad

They bring you up, your mum and dad.
   They mean to, and they do.

They fill you with all the dreams they had

   And then you add a few.

 

They were brought up in their turn

   By old fogies with no style.

Who in their time were sometimes strict

   And sometimes laughed a while.

 

Handing down the mystery of life.

   Deep meanings about the self.

Go out and take the world on

   And do have kids yourself.

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I disagree with Philip Larkin because I am hopefully optimistic!

Hope is...

Hope is the distant glimmer of recovery.

It is the light at the end of the tunnel.

It is the opposite of despair.

Reduces the negative as diagnosed.

The will to go on.

Against the odds.

It can disprove the theories of logic.

Confound the experts.

Prove that there is a reason for life.

And lead you to peace with one’s real self.

The future is bright

There is hope now.



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HOPE Placebo

Hope is very expensive if you don't give any at all. It will cost you dearly. 

 

In actual fact it costs you nothing, it is an attitude of mind. To be instilled and given out freely. You could give out large amounts but then people get unrealistic expectations because their hopes have been raised too much. It is best given out in small doses, they tend to stay with someone and can do wonders. 

 

The mind is a very powerful part of us that can perform amazing things. Ever heard of a placebo? It's usually a tablet that physically will do nothing for a patient. The strange thing is that they can work and make people feel better. I suspect that the key ingredient in any placebo is hope.

Here is an interesting article on 'Psych Central – Mental health & psychology information and support'.
The Amazing Power of the Placebo Effect By Jamie Hale 

  

 

 

 

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GCSEs

Today you may have received your GCSE results. I hope you got the grades you were hoping for today.

 

If not, do not worry. There are many ways to build on your achievments so far. True these pieces of paper are supposed to mark and grade you now but they are not you. It is just a grade today.

 

You will continue to grow and learn. Tomorrow you will be a different person, older and wiser. Next week/month/year you will answer questions differently and would get different grades, if you were to take the same paper again. You will learn from the experience and grow.

 

Some achieve amazing things from nowhere, with no certificates.
You could do the same if you have to.

 

Life throws things in your way and you may trip up..
But getting up again is far more important.
You may have to walk in a different direction but so what.
Who knows you may start running!


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Today will be better!

We have always needed hope, it is what gives us faith in the future, hoping that it will be better tomorrow.


It has often been associated with religions and at times has even had its own personification.


In Greek mythology, Elpis was the spirit of hope. She along with the other daimones were trapped in a jar by Zeus and entrusted to the care of the first woman Pandora. When she, in her curiosity, opened the vessel all of the spirits escaped except for Elpis (Hope) who alone remained to comfort mankind. Elpis was depicted as a young woman carrying flowers in her arms.


In Roman mythology, SPES, was the personification of Hope. Originally a nature goddess, she represented at first the hope of fruitful gardens and fields, then of abundant offspring, and lastly of prosperity to come and good fortune in general, being hence invoked on birthdays and at weddings. Spes was represented as a beautiful maiden in a long light robe, lifting up her skirt with her left hand, and carrying in her right a bud already closed or about to open. Sometimes she wore a garland of flowers on her head, ears of corn and poppy heads in her hand, symbolical of a prosperous harvest.




The hope I want to encourage is not a such a personification but something that should be within all of us, and it is there, always. Its just that sometimes it is very small and hard to find, but it will always be there somewhere.


All of us go though life experiences and sometimes these can reduce our hope and make it smaller. Some go though more than others. This is when hope needs boosting so that it can be made larger.


Some of us can take the knocks that life throws at us, some of us can not. It is our hope that makes us resilient and carry on, getting up the next morning and saying to ourselves 'Today will be better'.


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Hope Quotes

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Pliny the Elder

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. - Robert H. Schuller

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. - Desmond Tutu

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

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HOPE

Hope is

an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large.



a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.



wanting something to happen or be the case.



the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best



The origin of hope. - late Old English hopa (noun), hopian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoop (noun), hopen (verb), and German hoffen (verb).


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