How Does the Future Look Like

What does tomorrow brings?  

Who knows my future and what will it be? 

Well, Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life (Esperance).  It is not considered as a physical emotion but rather a spiritual grace in a religious context.  Hope is optimism the reverse of pessimism, distinct from positive thinking, which refers to a therapeutic or systematic process used in psychology.  Any hope based entirely around a fantasy or an extremely unlike outcome are false hope like tele-series people watch on television series and Hollywood movies or like the Cinderella fairy tales and superheroes.
     

Every individual has all the freedom to choose for himself what he or she may wants in life.  Whatever he chooses today determines his future.  But there are lots of things involved in every person when his critical mind is affected before he decides what to think and what to act based on his understanding.  There are not just a single medium in his surroundings that influenced him.

Consider the book written by Martin Seliqman "Learned Optimisms".  He strongly criticizes the role of Catholic religion in the promotion of the idea that the individual has little chance or hope of affecting his or her life.  The social and cultural conditions, such as serfdom and the caste system weighed heavily against the freedom of folks to change the social circumstances of their lives, acknowledge Seliqman.  Again, in his book "What You Can Change and What you can’t, he is careful to outline the extent that people can hold out hope for personal action to change some of the thing that affects their live.

In some faiths and religions of the world, hope plays a very important role. Hope can be passive in the sense of a wish or active as a plan or idea, often against popular belief, with persistent, personal action to execute the plan or prove the idea. Consider a prisoner of war who never gives up hope for escape and, against the odds, plans and accomplishes this. By contrast, consider another prisoner who simply wishes or prays for freedom, but without genuine hope, or another who gives up all hope of freedom.

Ernst Bloch in "Principle of Hope" traces the human journey for a wide range of utopias. Bloch locates utopian projects not only in the social and political realms of the well-known utopian theorists (Marx, Hegel, Lenin)  but also in a multiplicity of technical, architectural, geographical utopias, and in multiple works of art (opera, literature, music, dance, film). For Bloch hope permeates everyday life and it is present in countless aspects of popular culture phenomenon such as jokes, fairy tales, fashion or images of death. In his view Hope remains in the present as an open setting of latency and tendencies.

In psychology, hope is normally considered to involve two components;

(1) agency, involving the expectancy of positive outcomes, and

(2) pathways, involving the ability to see how those positive outcomes can be reached.  

  Hope is important to both well-being and educational performance; people low in hope are more likely to be anxious and depressed,   and a recent longitudinal study showed that college students who were low in hope in their first year attained worse degree results three years later, even after controlling for intelligence, other personality traits, and previous performance.

Hope Based on the Promises of the Almighty God

Most people who have strong faith in God holds positive outlook in life and in the future.  If God is all-knowing (omniscient), precisely He knows what will happen next.  If Love and Goodness are among in His attributes, then absolutely anyone who trusted Him surely will stand firm, strong and full of hope.  His words will be their hope that will lead them victoriously and triumphant.  That Hope in God's word will be their strong guide.