Hope comes in two flavors - starry-eyed and true. Starry-eyed hope is believing in something Pollyanna-style that can never come to fruition, while true hope is believing in something that can be made to become real.
If I hope I end up with a million dollars in my bank account, it's starry-eyed hope, if I don't do anything to try and make that a possibility. I might as well just keep my head in the sand and continue with my hopeful … [Read more...]