I'm with a lovely gathering of women, and all of us are on a Blogathon — a blogging marathon. We were given prompts, and I'm choosing the one called 'Moments of Hope'.
Why? Because hope is easy.
Hope is hard to create — but once you do, it stays with you long enough to fuel your mind, light the fire in your belly and turn you into an inextinguishable volcano of change.
I remember reading that "hope is stronger than fear", and I gotta agree with this. The only thing stronger than this would be a fear of never having hope.
Hope is short lived. To conjure it requires effort — and it doesn't appear out of thin air no matter how many times you've wished for it. But can you hope and pray that you will be able to make that effort? Yes. But what do you do when you can't make the effort? You can hope and pray that someone is waiting to help you.
My life can neatly be divided into phases with hope and phases entirely devoid of hope. But even in those hopeless phases, I had angels — actual human beings, I mean — who acted as beacons, and helped me feel hopeful again.
I'm trying to allow myself to be hopeful as often as I can — even to the point of irritation, may be — because to be hopeless is to be unfair to myself and my potential.
- TED Talk ends -
Loved this!
Thank you, Aparna! :)
Wow, spoke the pinnacle of truth
Thank you so much for your kind words, Vidya!
Happy Women's Day Sowmya! The very idea of a blogathon is so lovely. I am sure it's going great. Would love to see some photos. Meantime, joining in the hope for a more gender-equal world.
Stella
Great to see you, Love:-) How are you doing?
Hope you are having a good IWD!
XX
I am fine dear. Will FB chat soon. Happy IWD!
Good to hear:-) Miss you.
Sounds good.
Thanks!!
XX
Belated Happy Women's Day, Stella. The Blogathon was awesome, and would love to share the photos after checking with the fellow participants. Welcome to World Pulse, and I hope you have a magnificent journey here!
Hello, dear Somya,
A blogathon is really a wonderful idea. I am inspired to organize an event like this. I agree hope gives us a motivation to press on. I love how you describe your life with "phases of hope" and "phases without hope". I have those seasons, too, dear sister. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I am curious how many participants are you in this blogathon? Love the word, by the way!
Happy International Women's Day!
Happy Women's Day, Karen! Thank you for your kind words!
There were 6 participants. Would love to see you organise a Blogathon too! Please feel free to get in touch to brainstorm/thought partner for this with me. Thank you.
Hope is one of those Pannacia to a happy life. It is very difficult to be hopeful in times of poverty and adversity. But the moment you can engage hope you will realise how strong you can be despite all adversity around you.
Amen! Thank you for sharing this, sister!
This is nice, first time to hear about blogathon and would really love to try it, eeix . Hope is stronger than fear, I can't agree more. Keep us posted
Thank you, Elizabeth! Would love to see you host a Blogathon! Please feel free to get in touch to brainstorm/thought partner for this with me. Thank you.
love this. thank you. blogathon!!! oh hope. faith. i had to go search for some quotes!
“Hope is a pillar of faith. It is pillar which holds our desired dreams.”
“God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope”
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotes, Rahmana!
Dear Sowmya,
This was beautiful. Thank you for reminding us that sometimes hope is a choice we can make and in other cases we need to be vulnerable enough to allow others to help us find hope.
Happy Women’s Day!
Warmly,
Anne
"....hope is a choice we can make and in other cases we need to be vulnerable enough to allow others to help us find hope." - Bookmarking this, Anne! Thank you so much for sharing this. Happy Women's Day to you too!
Dear Sowmya,
nice to read this here at World Pulse.
My dear Hope is a good thing. And like all potential things and suggestions we must understand and contemplate on whatever it is we are praying and hoping for. Never give up on yourself because I am sure people in your life has never given up on you! Be and stay strong as mentally and emotionally as possible even we all have our doubtful minutes but as we fight the good fight and win which we will, we can congratulate ourselves. Be grateful because you've already won!
Sis Queen
Thank you so, so much for your kind words, Queen! Looking forward to learning with you on World Pulse!
Thank you for sharing your story, looking forward to it my dear!
Sis Queen
Bien réaliser ma soeur c'est un bon travail pour tous
Merci beaucoup chère soeur! (Pardonnez mon français médiocre!)
Hope is not short lived..I won't forget this ..Thanks ma'am
Thank you so much, Thelma. :)
Hi Sowmya, how are you doing? Life without hope has no meaning and when we have people around to support us its great. Keep hoping and holding on it will be fine.
Dear Lizzy,
I'm doing well - thank you! How're you doing? I agree with your thoughts completely! Thank you for your kind words. :)
"To be hopeless is to be unfair to myself and potential"
What a power way of ending this beautiful message of hope, dear Sowmya.
Keep hoping and keep being fair to yourself and potential.
Thank you so much for your encouraging words, Arrey! :) And, welcome to World Pulse! <3
Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind welcome. Actually I am an old school here.
Oh, my bad. :) Next to your name, it says "New", so I thought it referred to a "new member". Thank you for letting me know! :)
That's right. The "new" in this case simply means a new comment. I understand though.