/hōp/

So often we use a word very frequently in our day to day lives, yet don't completely understand its meaning. I think hope is one of these words. As you can imagine I hear the word hope very often. Yet because it is said as my name, I seldom think about what is means as a word in itself. I figured it was time to do so.

hope/hōp/

noun a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. a feeling of trust. There are two different meanings of the word hope. As seen above, one meaning is "a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen." We've all experienced this kind of hope. As a young child, waking up on Christmas morning wishing so hard that what you wanted is wrapped  underneath the tree. As a teenager wanting that cute boy in english to like you back so badly. Or maybe as an adult just praying that you can scrape up the rent money for the coming week. We've all hoped for things in our lives, whether they are big or small. However, the second meaning of hope is one that I'm not sure everyone has experienced to it's full extent. This meaning is described as "a feeling of trust". At some point in our lives, most of us have heard someone say "you can trust me" or even been the one to say that we have trust in someone else. Yet this doesn't necessarilly mean that we have all felt complete trust. This meaning of hope is describing what seems to be a complete contentment in what is going on around us because we have trust in someone or something. Now this hope can be put into many different things. Maybe someone puts this hope in someone else, a friend, family member or loved one. Maybe even themselves. We can also put our hope into something we believe is higher then ourselves. Muslims's put their hope in Alah, Buddhist's in Buddha, Hindu's in karma, and Christian's in Jesus Christ (Son of God). Whether we realize it or not, we have all put out hope in something. Now whether this is true hope or not is the real question.