There's a Glimmer of Hope...

There's a Glimmer of Hope...          

Everyone’s life has followed a different path. There are the ever present ups and downs in life. Each person develops a personal philosophy. Often people look at their life as being half full or half empty. Right or wrong this thinking has been supplemented with the idea, “There’s a glimmer of hope...”

         Most important to every living sole is the fact that as long as you can “sit up and take nourishment”, “There’s a glimmer of hope...” The alternative to this is bleak in deed if one is to grow, learn, prosper, and enjoy life to its fullest.

         The whole point of life is to “profit from one’s mistakes.” It is the “spice of life.” How boring would a person’s life be if there was no left or right of a given journey? Everyone should be able to recount the good times and profit from the bad. Perfection is a goal for some, but do thy ever really attain what the conceive as perfect.

         Depression in one form or another, sadly, besets many. Dealing with depression is the one of the hardest challenges in anyone’s existence. While a depression sufferer is in the throws of this malady it is near impossible to see the “glimmer.” It is ever present, however, it is just hard to re-focus and maintain a semblance of normal and keep looking forward to “the silver lining” just ahead.

         Disappointments in most folks lives are numerous. The hard part, when beset by disappointing situations, is not to dwell on the moments past. The past will never change, but, one has the ability to make better future judgments. Here too, one must be careful  not to set their goals so high as to be unattainable. Goals are but targets. If one can accept falling a bit short once in awhile, life will always present “a glimmer of hope...”

         Many people are often less than satisfied with there personal success and performance. Caution here should be to be less critical of self and more responsive to the knowledge they gain from their mistakes. Ted Williams, a baseball hall of famer said it best, “Baseball is the only endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

         Quite often many who are looking for that glimmer,may solace and direction through the quotes left by some world-class scholars and others of renown. Some of these include the following:

“I not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” - Groucho Marx

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” - Mark Twain

“Man is not made for defeat, A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” - Ernest Hemingway

“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.” - Mohandas Gandhi

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned from yesterday.” - John Wayne

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth

“Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious” - Will Rogers

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” - George Carlin

         Life and living are wondrous. The alternative, well who can honestly say they would prefer nonexistence? The only people that could possibly that death is a goal, would have to be those with terminal illnesses. Each day brings new hope, a new direction, a new perspective. As long as one is alive...,"There’s a glimmer of hope!”