Hope #1

"Sometimes...for some people...things don't work out as they might have HOPED. .......HOPE...is a currency for people who know they're losing...the more familiar you are with hope the less beautiful it becomes. ....you'll never wake up a new person but someday you might wake up and see things, hear things, and think things differently."*

When we are young, we bask our world in a safe warm glow. Then we die as reality breaks through. We develop vices to move us through until one day we find ourselves on a path that goes two ways: away from ourselves or towards ourselves. Consciously or unconsciously, we WILL choose which way to go.

In life, we are all assigned the task of finding our true selves -- as opposed to the self others may have taught us we are. If we find ourselves, then we find the Higher Power others speak about.

But what happens if you do all the right things and life still doesn't work the way you'd hoped? Does that mean that what you thought was "right" was realy wrong? Do you give up? Do you keep trying? If you do keep trying, do you do things differently even if it doesn't seem right?

*Sixteen Years of Alcohol, 2003.