Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The Best Thing I've Ever Heard...

...at least in the last 24 hours is this:

"Hope dies last."

It's this "quote" I ran across - though, in a quick google search, it's also a book title, dealing with grief seminar and unsigned indie rock band. So, who knows its true origin. And quite honestly, I don't care.

Because I simply want to breath it in and cherish the thought. Hope is, in my wholly unqualified opinion, the most powerful thing. Take the power of the wind and sun and we're only talking a fraction of the power of Hope.

I depend on it daily, maybe hourly - okay, every few seconds. And it's always there. It is the quiet friend who smacks you in the head, drags you to your feet and says - "There's more - if you want it bad enough."

If I live to be one hundred - let hope live to be one hundred plus one day.

2 comments:

Steve said...

Not to be that guy, but I think hope was also the last horror out of Pandora's box. Hope can either be the great tool you use to cope with everyday life or a way to waste a life hoping for change without workiing for change. As with all the gifts we're given, it's a matter of how we use it. You're using it very well indeed.
Steve

uncle mike said...

Really, he's not this deep on weekends!