Hope?

I recently had someone ask me how I stay so strong through every situation I have been through. I know its my faith and I know it was God. But there also was this word that kept popping in my head. Hope. There is a technical definition for the word but the definitions that some other people had were more interesting to me.

hope is holding on to something that may or may not be there 
fooling yourself into thinking it is and in turn, possibly making something happen.

To me 'hope' means the light at the end of the tunnel, the belief that things will be better, it's what inspires me to carry on. We all need some hope. Hope you have hope!

I think HOPE is nothing but a heartbreak - a falsehood invented by people to pass the time in a state of suspension.

There is a story called 'Pandora's Box'. The box was filled with all the ills of the earth. Pandora was asked to watch over the box, but not too open it. But her curiosity got the best of her and she opened it anyway. Out came all the sickness, diseases, sorrows, vices, and crimes that afflict poor humanity today. She closed the box before the last thing could get out. The last thing in the box was "HOPE". Hope begged her to let him out and finally she let HOPE out of the box, too.
Some believe HOPE is saving grace of the story, some believe HOPE is just another ill on humanity.

I paused at some of these definitions. This post has taken me a while to put together because its something I like to believe in. I don't see it as a negative but I can understand why some people do use it as a negative. It seems every time we use the word hope it goes the wrong way. Like I hope I don't have cancer. I hope I get the job. Then when they find out they have cancer or they don't get the job, that hope means something else totally. Or if they don't get cancer or they get the job, hope takes on a different meaning. 

It can be the same in any situation. You hope for the phone to ring. You hope that girl or guy likes you. You hope for something, anything. And then that hope changes whatever the outcome is. I have been dealing with this some in the last 2 weeks or so. My problem is I get my hope so high that it hurts so bad when its a negative response. But when everything goes the right way, I keep that hope. Where am I going with this? Well, we do have a hope that everyone can depend on. I hang my hope onto God. And whether I agree with that hope or not, I know its in his time but sometimes we see it on our time and thats when the hope takes negative turn. Im hoping against hope for some things but really hope turns to worry and then Ive learned that I just can't dwell on that. I have such a great life that with the edition of some things, my hopes are coming true.