Hop on to Hope
Are you a hopeful person? Before you answer that, let’s spend a moment defining hope. Hope is a word of unknown origins, but some say that it comes from the verb “hop”. So, to hope means to leap forward in expectation. Friedrich Nietzsche, that ever so happy fellow, once said, “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” He went on to say, “God is dead.” It doesn’t sound like he was doing any leaping. Which are you? Are you struggling to find hope in anything or anyone like Nietzsche or are…