Aya Domingo, Margarita Cheng Grade 9 Project Motion 2015 Article “How is hope shared?”
So Can I When Typhoon Yolanda struck the Visayas on November 8, 2013, it left thousands of people devastated. People lost their homes, resources, and even lives to the typhoon. But not their hope. Filipinos gathered every ounce of hope they had and used it to inspire the lives of their fellow Filipinos. Even people from all over the world witnessed it. The Filipinos are living proof that hope is shared through showing, telling, and living. They have begun to rebuild not only their homes and lives, but they have begun to hope for better things to come their way.
Hope. Noun. A feeling of anticipation and desire for a certain thing to happen. It is a word in everyone’s vocabulary and we are no stranger to what hope is. But how do we find hope? Where is hope? Hope is everywhere. It is hidden in the most unlikely of places and in the most unlikely of people. Every kind of hope is a different hope. A young child may hope to get a bike for Christmas this year. A person hopes someone will come back. A hope to pass an exam. Each person hopes for something different but some don’t hope at all. They are convinced that nothing they want will ever come to be. So how is hope shared? It happens through a whisper,