Hope: The 8th Deadly Sin
by PROexploit
My title is a little bit of a joke, designed to grab your attention, but my message is the same. I think that hope can be a terrible thing. Most people think hope is only a positive quality. In fact, our current president’s campaign was largely based on hope for the future. You should always hope for someone to pull through a serious illness or recover from a bad accident, but most of the time, forget about hope and do something.
By definition, hope allows a person to sit around and wait for something to change. It’s as effective as a wish to your fairy godmother. What you need to do instead is analyze the situation and change something. To change things, you need to make the change happen, not just hope and see if anything happens. It won’t.
Examples:
You work as a server in a restaurant. You don’t get tipped as much and you’re falling behind on your bills. You hope every day that you’ll be tipped more.
The solution: Don’t hope. Do something. Perhaps you should look for a different job. Do some research on how successful servers get large tips.
You feel strongly that abortion shouldn’t be legal. You hope that the supreme court will ban it.
The solution: Stop just hoping and do something! It’s easy to think you can’t do anything because the decision isn’t yours. If you feel strongly enough, you should be active. Perhaps you should write your congress, form a local group, or start a website.
The bottom line is that you need to be the change you wish to see. You can’t just hope, because hope in itself is useless.
