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WITH HOPE, YOU CAN GO PLACES

 “Hope is that thing in us that keeps saying that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach it” President Barrack Obama in his 2007 campaign speeches.
There is certainly no human in this world that has no problems, but our problems/ challenges seem to be heightened by our own minds. One wise man once said, “Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.” Every day, we wake up with many demands, little or no money to get going and or no one to offer a hand.

The great obstacle to success in life is not the lack of ideas, but the presence of hopelessness. Lack of a positive belief that one day, one time, something better shall happen. The great majority of people have ideas, but do have little hope to either believe that it can work or even to start.

Hope is when you see nothing tangible in your disposure and you still believe that one day, you will have it. Hope is when life seems almost ending, but having the belief that things shall be good.

In the busy streets of marvelous cities reside a great deal of people with less or no money. No homes to reside in, no place to get food, no one to lean on, but life has to go one. Many of them would have committed suicide because life seems unworthy living.

Hope is that thing that keeps telling us, keep going forward, keep trying and keep being creative and innovative. Hope is that thing that keeps giving us the courage to walk on foot when others are driving posh cars. Hope is that thing that keeps telling you to begin from where you are. Hope is that thing that keeps telling us, go that direction even when there is seemingly no way.

Taking lessons from the great American, Thomas Alber Edison who innovated the electric bulb. He has become one of my great inspirers. Trying more than 1999 times and always failing, he never at any one point gave up, but in the 10,000th time, he was eventually successful. In his own words, “I have not failed, but I only found 10,000 ways that never worked”

A great deal of people give up in life just after a few trials. They give up just because they don’t seem to see the good in what they are doing, but focus only on the negativities.

Leaving his parents, wandering along the rail road, trying to sell fruits in the street to raise capital for himself…Alber Edison did not give up even after he was expelled from the train in which he was earning a little living. Wandering through the streets of New York, with no money in himself, he eventually became a beggar, but his plight did not stop him from establishing his own factory and inventing what his dream kept telling him to do.

Thousands of ideas have perished because of lack of hope and courage. With hope and courage, many things can be possible. The ability to constantly think of the good things, breeds more hope. The little hope in us is killed by pessimists who never believe in themselves. They are the reason, you should never get close to them.

It is for the lack of hope, courage and determination that someone will walk to workers house and throw themselves to the ground from the fifth floor just because their hopelessness, creates a sense of impatience and lack of skill in tackling problems.

It is because of the lack of hope that a woman will give herself to a cunning “employer” in the name of securing a job. Just because she does not hope that without giving the man sex, she can’t get a job. Hope is that thinking that makes us believe that we are worthy, even when you do not have a single penny to yourself. Hope is the belief that you are even better than some of the people who see themselves as better.

Hope is when you sleep without any significant meal every day and still believe that you will be having a buffet in your meal every day in the future. Hope is when you are rejected, isolated and mocked by people and still have the belief that someday, someone will accept you. That one day, people will be around you.

Jesus himself, probably would not have been who he is remembered for if had not any hope. Many great people we see today are those that believed that one day, they shall be better. Those that grew in homes where riding in car was a myth. Where eating bread/ cakes was an illusion. And it is such that have risen to the echelon of today’s admiration.

Have the hope and the courage will yield determination. Where there is hope, there is a way

The author is a business trainer/ consultant. A motivational speaker and Founder of Milestone Africa, a consultancy firm that specializes, research, marketing, promotions, public relations, advertising, entrepreneurship and business trainings among others.
Contact the author on fekakoro@yahoo.com or +256752142630  

"where there's always prejudice and preconceived bias, however much you try to be good, you will always be bad"

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