Hope in General

It is of positive human nature to have goals and aspirations. I too am human and have goals and aspirations. However, now I am at a place in my life where my goals and aspirations aren’t necessarily specific.

When I was younger it was easy to name specific goals such as getting a car, going to college, and getting a good job. Now that those goals are obtained it is a little more difficult to focus on a specific goal.

Maybe it is because I feel like I am in less control of my ability to attain my goals. My goals now are thinks like eventually getting a promotion, finding a significant other, and maybe having a family. All of these goals partially include me but they also equally involve other people.

Attaining these goals requires hope in people beyond me and things beyond my control. How then if that is the case, can I hope specifically? How can I say that new position is mine and that I will it to be mine by the end of the year? Also, how could I be so bold to tell someone else that they will be in a relationship with me because it is one of my goals?

I can’t do those things and I can’t know that they will actually happen. So really I can’t hope in specific anymore because the specific goals are out of my control. Instead I have learned to hope in general.

Hope in general says that something good and positive will continue in my life. Hope in general doesn’t say that I will have my own family in 3.5 years. It says that in 3.5 years I will still have positive opportunities of some kind as long as I’m still here on earth.

Therefore, hope in general doesn’t allow for the disappointment of goals not attained. It doesn’t make a person frustrated because this or that didn’t’ come to fruition. To me, hope in general prevents a person from feeling like a failure because something that was partially out of their control didn’t happen. That is why at this point in my life I choose to hope in general.