Hopelessness
When analyzing the quote "We do not have the right to sit and feel hopeless. There's too much work to be done," Hopelessness must be understood first. It can be described as losing all faith or belief towards something or someone, maybe even yourself. This usually results in people not wanting to do much or anything, because they feel there's no purpose. When people use the word "hopeless", they usually talk about themselves and how their current situation is just that, hopeless.
A part of life however, a big part in fact, is work. Work provides people with a purpose, a task required to do, something to pass the time, another thing to prioritize in life, something you can view in many ways. And the best thing about work is that it's almost always rewarded. But what if someone wasn't? What if throughout all the work someone’s done, all the effort and time they spent doing their best, they weren't rewarded? That's when people start to feel hopeless, the one thing they've relied on for a purpose never really mattered, that makes people question their own purpose. That's why no one likes to do work.
But if people have the free time to mope around and begin asking questions to themselves, then they have the time to continue working, as work never stops. Wherever people go, there will always be work for them to do, and ONLY them. The work will continue to come through and pile up, seemingly with no end, but after it's done, you get a different kind of reward. This reward doesn't come in physical form like food or money (though most likely it is), This reward is called relief.
This relief is a mental break for yourself, as for a moment, you don't have to worry so much about being forced to do something. You can do your own things now. For once, hope can be felt, all of a sudden, not everything's not so bleak. There’s now belief that everything’s going to be smooth sailing from here.
Belief can also be described as a choice, for example, not all people believe the ideology of karma. This is a choice made by people as they’re their own individuals and are free-thinkers. But can feeling hopeless be a choice? Obviously no, since so many people feel that it isn’t, but really, it is (I know I’m wrong, just hear me out). When someone’s sad, they tend to focus on the negatives, and that’s a choice, the same way someone can think about the positives in that same situation.
What I’m getting to is that current situations don’t determine how someone feels, only that person can determine how to react. No one pressures one another to feel certain ways in certain situations. However, one must know to not feel hopeless in the face of work, as it proves that inanimate objects and knowledge bested them.
the main point I want to talk about is this, “current situations don’t determine how someone feels, only that person can determine how to react” That message alone is so powerful. It teaches people that life is however they see it, some people feel like they are not in control of their own life because they are letting someone else dictate their own emotions. Your life is in your hands, and you should always focus on what you can control.
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