HOPE
By: Saurabh Dhamnaskar
Tags: Peace, Self Improvement, Hope, Positivity

“To cherish a desire with anticipation: to want something to happen or be true”

This is how Merriam-Webster dictionary defines hope.

Hope is what wakes us up in the morning

Hope is what makes anyone go from rags to riches

Hope is what makes a pauper a king.

This world lives on hope. There is hope in everything we do knowingly or unknowingly. These are my opinions and what comes in my mind when I think about it.

The successful people in any field give hope to the people who are struggling to reach their highest level. One who has big dreams but no hope may find it difficult in achieving the dream. Consider any leader from any domain in the world, you can observe that they keep their hope at its peak. This is what gives us the strength to do the undo-able. Hence, it’s said that never lose HOPE.

I believe that we humans are such creatures who have the ability to hope and work on it. Our journey to the goal or dream starts with the hope that one day we would achieve it. God has given us this amazing power which can be used in the right way to achieve the impossible. It is rightly said that “Hope for the best, but expect the worst”. When we start thinking about what we want, our subconscious mind starts working towards it. It is bounded to the law of the power of spoken words. Remember Arnold Schwarzenegger? He is the one who gave hope to people that anyone irrespective of their background can win Mr. Olympia. He started with nothing but now he is a top icon in the world of weight lifting/bodybuilding and obviously admiring him in Terminator movies is another aspect. We go to bed every day with no assurance of waking up the next morning but we still set our alarm clock for the next day, this is called HOPE.

For me, I did not realize what tremendous strength it has until I came to the US for a Masters at the University of Pittsburgh. The journey was filled with struggle. It all started due to the support of one of my close friends and my manager that I even decided to think of going to the US. My family never thought about it because of our financial situation. Right from giving GRE exam twice, applying for 10 universities and getting admits from 3, break-ups, figuring out finances to getting sanction letter from the bank and finally boarding the flight. I had lost all my hope when there was no sanction letter until the day before my flight, but my parents were fighting for it and never gave up. I realized how they are the strongest people in the whole world because they maintained high hopes at the weakest point of time that no matter what loan will be sanctioned. And Yeah! It happened! 🤩

The reason I thought of writing this is that there are thousands of people who would have lost hope or are on the verge of losing it, but I would like to tell them loud and clear that never lose hope in you. Do not let any situation crash your dreams. It takes an immense amount of energy to dream big. The first step towards achieving that dream is YOU HOPE YOU REACH THERE AND THEN YOU NEVER LOOK BACK. There will be adversities in life, but God gives the strongest battles to his strongest disciples. Believe in yourself.

#peaceout #hope 😇