Every night the drawing of the curtains feels like a goodbye. But it's not, is it? We wake up the next day, and the next, and the next, and open the curtains, and the world is still there. It's never a goodbye. It's never too late. There is ALWAYS hope. Realise that. Embrace it. And always, always, you must promise me, you will remember it. Because these things are worth remembering - worth believing in. Darkness doesn't mean the end. It just means a time for you to rest - so you can face the next day, the next battle, refreshed and ready to fight.
There is always hope. No matter how dark the night is, the day returns. The sun is always looking over you. You just don't know it.
Really, we close the curtains every night and that in itself is called hope. Because when you do so, you do so with the knowledge that you will be here the next morning to open them, and you believe that everything outside will still be there. Setting your alarm clock for the next morning is hope, because you believe you will be here the next day to hit that snooze button. Climbing into bed in itself, that is hope - believing that the darkness will not take you away in the night.
Believing isn't an act that is taken lightly. The phrase 'I lost hope' is invalid. Hope is always there, in the darkest times, although it manifests itself differently for everyone. There are some days when you feel helpless - hopeless. But you have to put trust into the fact that things will be okay. Tomorrow is always stronger than yesterday. Things are hard, but it doesn't mean you've lost hope. Hope is within reach only if you believe it is.
And, I guess, fears don't really ever go away, but at some point they just have no power over us. That point comes when you decide to believe in hope. As Susanne Collins said in her famous Hunger Games, 'Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.' Yes, things are hard. But just the fact that you are still here is proof that life goes on. 'You cannot protect yourself from sadness, without protecting yourself from happiness.' Same goes for fear. You can't protect yourself from fear, without protecting yourself from courage. There always has to be fear. Fear does things that make it worth feeling it. Fear changes things that should be changed. Fear changes YOU, to make you a bigger person. Fear is important, and so is the hope that comes with it.
It happens every day, and the next, and the next, till the last day, and it is called hope. Hope always happens. Without hope, nothing grows. Hope is a natural reminder to live - to be okay.
Don't think of darkness as a defeat - just another milestone you have achieved. Don't count too far ahead - keep it small. Think one day at a time, and you will survive. Life is too miraculous to be an accident. You are here for a reason. Believe it. Live every day like it.
The day may only be here in passing, but so is the night, after all. Everything ends, but it also begins again. Watch every day end...and the next morning, watch the sun rise again. That is what life is about.
So close the curtains every night. But do so with the hope - no, the KNOWLEDGE - that there is a new day. The good is stronger than the evil and the lies - it will always triumph. There is a new day - promise yourself there is; light your own path. Believe in hope. Help others understand it. Trust that the next day, the sun will be there to greet you, even after the darkest hours of the night.
And so it will be, so long as you keep believing.
- A Girl In This World
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