The Delusion of Hope

Hope’ is usually believed to be such a good thing. People often say things like ‘when all else fails, at least we have hope’. But really to have hope is an incredible delusion that takes you on a roller-coaster up high to a perfect dream, and then crashes down to awful hellish disappointment. Instead of facing reality right now, people so often prefer the dream of hope because it seems sweeter than feeling whatever is here right now. But this hope is sickly sweet poison. It is always putting life off into an imaginary future. It is always about waiting for a ‘one day’ that will only ever be a dream. Awakening is about waking up from the sickly sweet dream of hope, and simply experiencing whatever is felt right now, whether it fits into your ideas of what should be, or not. Truly losing hope, although it can seem terrible to the thinking, is the best thing that can ever happen to you.