I've been trying for 2 weeks...

...and I am finally getting to sit and chat.
Life is absolutely amazing isn't it?? I am always finding some fascinating thing popping up during my day. Sometimes terribly fascinating sometimes wonderfully so. Hope has been a topic of discussion this week in my head. Someone asked me when it would be improper to hope. I was a bit taken aback by this question and have proceeded to ponder it for a few days. I have come to the conclusion that is always good to hope. I have heard the term false-hope and I am afraid I don't truly understand, or believe it. False hope I was told is defined as something that is impossible to ever achieve. I guess if I hoped and hoped that I would one day fly it could be conceived as false hope, for as a human I cannot fly, however I could learn to fly a plane, and many a person was believed to be insane by trying to fly but their hopes were achieved and now I can hope to fly and I can. This question was posed to me in context of relationships, and I ask should we ever give up hope on another human being, to change, to love or to be loved? I think not. I do believe that however what that person does is entirely up to them and if say someone is abusive we can hope for them to change, however we do not have to be their punching bag.
I think hope is one of the greatest gifts that our Creator has given us. Next to love of course. In a day and age where most questions can be answered by technology and science there are some that cannot. One, our (human beings) ability to love, and the other is our ability to hope for something better. Animals live in the here and now, they have no future, they have no past, they don't feel the passage of time the same way we do. However you can have a very loyal dog that you love, but can you ever say that dog loves you back? Certainly the dog will want to please so it will do as you ask, it will protect it's pack leader to the death, it will provide warmth and comfort, but it does it do these things out of love? No. And thankfully so. You see we humans can think about the outcome of our actions, if we take the blame for someones actions we know what the consequences will be and we still decide to do so, if a dog attacks someone or something that is hurting their master they do it out of duty, out of instinct. And the same goes for hope. If a dog or any animal is in a situation that is wretched it cannot sit and think about the wonderful world over the rainbow that it could one day reach if it tried very hard. It would be content in its situation and carry out the same instinctual loyal duties. While we as humans can dream, imagine and grasp at faint strings of hope. When I posed to this person a question about what he would consider false hope he stated hoping for things that are impossible. But are we not told that with God all things are possible? Certainly, he created the universe. And wouldn't it be very egotistical of us to say we know if something is not possible ever? If we currently only use 10% of our brains imagine what could be done with 11% or 15%? So why should we state that something is not possible, I could agree that many things are not probable, like time travel or say being bitten by a radioactive spider that will do something other than kill you. But would you say those things are impossible? Some would yes, but again I state the fact that we know so little of our world let alone the universe. And so I state that nothing is completely impossible and that we should always hope, it is a gift and we should use it. And if you are hoping to travel through time by jumping off a bridge you should be prepared to die. Because in this moment, that is impossible but you can always hope for the future.