Steinbeck on Hope
John Steinbeck talked about hope being necessary for life. If we thought our future would not be better, we wouldn't have a reason to live.
Hope is evolutionary. It's rebellious, survivalist.
If you can't see the light, keep looking. It's a survival skill. If you have no hope, but you are still looking, don't give up. You looking for hope in its absence is YOU learning to survive! Don't believe the dark. You're doing it, you're a survivor.
Steinbeck on Hope:
"Probably when our species developed the trick of memory and with it the counterbalancing projection called “the future,” this shock-absorber, hope, had to be included in the series, else the species would have destroyed itself in despair. For if ever any man were deeply and unconsciously sure that his future would be no better than his past, he might deeply wish to cease to live… In saying that hope cushions the shock of experience, that one trait balances the directionalism of another, a teleology is implied, unless one know or feel or think that we are here, and that without this balance, hope, our species in its blind mutation might have joined many, many others in extinction."
