MAYBE NOT OPTIMISM, BUT ALWAYS HOPE.

(Image by Peter Ringenberg / University of Notre Dame)

 

I have been thinking a lot lately about optimism vs. hope.  What's the difference?

Sometimes the best definitions are by example.  Take the current U.S. House of Representatives for example.  I personally am not overly optimistic that Democrats will win a majority of the gerrymandered districts at this point.  The numbers favor the Republicans, as they intended when they drew most of these districts.

But I am hopeful.  Hope is durable.  It endures.  It lives for the long term.

To paraphrase Robert F. Kennedy who paraphrased George Bernard Shaw back in the day not so long ago, "Some people see things as they are, and ask 'Why?'  I dream things that never were and ask,  'Why not?'"

Maybe I am not overly optimistic, but I am hopeful.

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