Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Happened to be watching a few shows and movies and realised 2 things that were mentioned in the show that actually sounded quite profound.
Hope is the quintessential human delusion...
and
Denial is the most predictible of all human responses...
When you think about it, they do seem kinda true... I mean, everyone wants to have hope. But what really is hope? People always say that, "I HOPE there is some left", "I HOPE she's the one for me", "I HOPE I get that job"... So... wat does hope really mean? To wish something happens, or you get something you want? How many times does it really work, that you hope for something and it actually comes true?
Most of the time, we use "HOPE" when there seems to be none, or rather, to be more accurate, when there really is none, but we can't really take the truth about it, so we delude ourselves that there might still be some "HOPE" that what we want will happen...
So I guess, sometimes, hope really is a human delusion...
Denial is somewhat similar to hope... It's a human response, just like hope... but while we use hope to delude ourselves against the truth, denial is what we use to confront it...
Everytime we find something we don't like, don't want to hear or see, denial comes in and we find ourselves saying, "It can't be true" or "I don't believe it"... even if it really is the way things turned out...
So maybe hope precedes denial... when we hope against hope that something we want will happen, and when it doesn't, we deny that what has happened is true, because, it is not OUR truth...
Then how does one deal with these dual conumdrums of hope and denial?? I've only been able to come up with this way, but if anyone else has a way, I'd be glad to hear it...
We can deal with hope and denial, or to be more accurate, truths we'd rather not hear, by accepting things as they are. Even if they are not OUR TRUTHS, they are still true, and rather than fight for something that is impossible, embrace the truth, accept it, and just look ahead to the path laid before you... Enjoy what you can, then move ahead...
It's the only thing one can do... at least, that's what I feel...
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