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,
with a statement, with a shout. Hope is shared through a life. Through experiences. Through another person’s story.
Relating to each other is no hard task for any of us; we are all humans after all. Behind each of is a story to tell. Every milestone and heartbreak is a chapter in a life and some might not be too different from your own. Whether it’s failing an important exam, doing something regrettable, or losing a loved one, everyone has reached what seemed like rock bottom and it’s a normal part of life. There will always be someone who will be able to reach out and say that they understand or they know the feeling.
There is proof of hope everywhere. It is in a single mother hoping her child will not become like his father. It is in a pedestrian walking across the street hoping to get to their favorite coffee shop before the donuts run out. It is in a college student living off instant ramen hoping to get to class on time to pass an important paper, knowing that his parents gave up every single penny just to get him there. It can be seen on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and every other social networking site existing. Stories of hopefulness can be seen, heard, and witnessed everywhere. The reasons for being hopeless don’t match up with the reasons to be hopeful. With hope, the concept that must be remembered is “if they can, I can. We’re both humans, right?”
Sharing hope starts with being hopeful. No hope means it doesn’t get shared. Even a simple acknowledgement of the hope you have in you could be enough to give someone else hope. Especially when it comes to similar situations, if your actions scream out the words
“HOPE” and tomorrow is a new day, it could influence someone to think the same as you and to hope the same as you.
Hope is a contagious disease. The likeliness of catching it is high when you are in contact with somebody who has it. Within a matter a seconds everyone can catch it. Some people don’t realize it but everyone can be a beacon of hope. It is passed around from person to person in the most unlikely situations. Even uttering a couple of words can change how someone looks at things. Sometimes all you must do is accept someone for who they are, say “I love you” to a person you care for, or even just respect the person next to you in order to turn their world around.
Where do we find hope? Experiences and milestones that are overcome and conquered with hope are how we get ours. We begin to think about what they have been through and how defeating it would be a possibility. Hope is everywhere. You do not need to spend your life searching for it as it is already in you. You just need to open your eyes and take in what is going on around you. It is in every human one way or the other whether they like it or not. There is no use keeping it to yourself. Once your hope has been shared, there is no way to take it back because the person you have helped will have already begun to think that if you can find hope, then so can they.