Hope

Its sad to consider the possibility of life devoid of "Hope". Hope is the exercise of positive thought, affirming the goodness of reality, and embracing the intrinsic possibility of all things.

It has become increasingly difficulty for the modern-teenager to feel "hopeful", as our generation has been exposed to the suffering of the human condition early-on in the time-line of life. People claim to be realists, pragmatists, and naturalist. The reality is that existence is consumed by the darkness of suffering, but every moment of suffering is nothing more than a block, a block in the construction of a comprehensive frame of reference. A reference for the in-depth analysis and enjoyment of happiness. This can be explained in simple analogous terms: if one year a boy is given a small-amount of Christmas presents, due to his families relative poverty, and the next year the boy is given a significantly larger amount of presents, due to his father's promotion, then he is infinitely more appreciative of those presents than a boy that consistently receives a huge-amount of presents. The man that has suffered is infinitely more appreciative of comfort and happiness than the man that has never experience true sadness. A teenager cannot healthily proceed through this fortuitous existence devoid of hope. Hope in the goodness of reality and the relative just of all things gives meaning to life, meaning to being. People need to be able to hope for something more, something better, than the status quo. Hope, and its many states are irreplaceable and paramountly important.