Hopefully Hopeless
When you dream big, your dream is inevitably beyond your own power to reach. If that’s not the case, you’re either not dreaming big enough or not being honest with yourself. For this reason, all effort is futile and hopeless. No matter what you do, something could always foil you.
On the other hand, there’s always the possibility that the something that does control it — the gatekeeper — could one day take your side, the planets may align, your lucky number could be drawn. In other words, there is always hope — even if it’s one in a bazillion.
To reach Truth and your dream, you must rise above the contradiction and embrace the paradox. Each perspective is equally true from its own point of view. And neither point of view is superior. By transcending the battle between hope and hopelessness, any dream can come true.
But wait… isn’t that hope?
Hope can be a barrier the same way that hopelessness can be. It keeps the dream projected out in front, never within reach.
Transcendence occurs when reaching an end result is truly hopeless, and you accept this, but realize that there is nothing else you would rather do. If you found yourself in the deepest darkest prison cell, and no one — no one — in known history has ever escaped, but you wanted freedom more than anything, you would scrape at the walls till you had no fingernails. You would continue simply because there was nothing else you would rather be doing. And when you give yourself entirely like this, knowing full well that you can never escape — after all, much stronger, smarter, more resourceful people before you have failed — miracles happen. But only if you act without hope.
If you simply love striving for your dreams, then doing that is the only thing that makes sense.
