classpectlab:

Originally written by @fluffytheasianpanda, for ClasspectLab’s Task 1.0, 2016.

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Hope is belief. It’s the unshakable trust you have in your friends and people all around, even if they don’t necessarily deserve it. Hope is giving everyone a second chance because people can change, and they will. It’s about believing in someone when they’ve failed so many times, but you know they’ll make it because you can see it in their eyes, the grit of their teeth, and their determination to get this done. It’s the happiness and the warmth in your chest when they finally get through it, and the big smile you can’t keep from your face when you congratulate them.

Hope is accepting all ideas and all people, regardless of whether or not you agree with them. It’s listening to all sides of a story and making sure that you understand the reasoning behind all of them, even if you’re biased towards one side. Once you hear all sides, you might see something that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise, and that could change everything. On the off chance that does happen, you want to hear everything.

Hope is making sure that you can do everything to help your friends and maybe people who aren’t your friends, even if they screw up and their life is falling apart. Especially if that happens because it’s in that time that they need you. They need your support and your acceptance, even if it may be unwanted because when they climb their way out from rock bottom, sweat dripping from their forehead and body shaking from exhaustion, you’ll be there to help them up. And when they look at you with a grin and a soft “Thank you”, nothing could be better.

Sometimes, Hope is having that pure and utter trust broken in the worst of times by the people you love the most. Because you had so much faith in them, because you trusted them so much, when they break that trust, it’s horrible. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” This is the worst part of Hope because you have to learn to pick yourself up after that and face the world yet again. You have to learn to trust the right people instead of blindly placing your faith in everyone. And sometimes, before you learn that, you get hurt. You might feel like you can never trust anyone again, but you will heal. You will recover. And you will be able to hold faith in people again.

Hope is, at the end of the day, the pure and complete trust you have, whether it be in yourself, someone else, or something that isn’t quite real. Who knows, though? If you believe in it hard enough, maybe it’ll turn into something that is real.