How Far?

How do you balance your need to assess with your desire to hope? How sure are you, not of your assessment, but of the history behind it? How far are you willing to let hope go, from the possible to the improbable to the impossible? May hope guide your steps today as you journey to the joy of impossible. There’s a fine line between reasonable and unreasonable hope. Or is there? So much of what we see in the world is based on how we assess it. It’s not the facts but it’s the reasons behind things, the intentions we assign to others, the mechanisms that we think are operating in the background. What is can be challenging but the far bigger challenges, at least for me, are the why's that I assume behind what I experience. Our hope is often just as constrained by these quiet reasons as our interpretation of today. Of course some things are physically impossible. But most things we hope for are not. Rather, we think they are unlikely or unreasonable. And yet, we hope. So I think the question we need to ask ourselves is how bold should our hope be. As you read this I wonder: * What is the “craziest” thing you are hoping for? * Why do you think it is so crazy to hope for it? * What changes in your world if those reasons are or turn out to be wrong? We have a lot of control over what we choose to hope for. All too often, I’ve constrained my hopes because of stories I’ve told myself about who I am or how the world works. As we close the week, can you let some of those constraints go and see where your hope chooses to fly? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com