Leave Space for Hope

Can you make sure to leave space for hope? In those moments where you want to shut everything out, leave a gap for light to flow in. As much as you may feel alone and unloved, leave space for someone to prove you wrong. Because whether you feel it in this moment or not, that proof will come. Sometimes life just hurts. Sometimes it feels like everything is stacked up in a way that you cannot win. Your best efforts are critiqued or unrecognized. The people you love most are distant. And you feel stuck. And it’s natural to want to close yourself off in those moments, to hide from the pain and wait for things to change. But I wonder whether only waiting for things to change is one of the worst things we can do. It is a surrender to the world around us. It denies our ability to act, to move, and yes, to hope. Because even in the moments where everything just hurts, part of you knows it is going to change. But what hope allows you to do is believe that you can make the change come faster. And I believe this is true because your lens, your filter, is always within your influence. As you read this I wonder: * Where do you most feel the darkness of hopelessness? * What are you doing to open yourself up to new possibilities? * How confident are you that change will come and that you have some control? I can’t tell you how many times my view of the world, myself, and my place in it has been changed by a conversation. I have lost count of how many dark stories I’ve told myself that have proven to be wrong (nearly all of them). My wish for all of us is that we leave space for the idea that the darkness we see may be our lens rather than our reality. 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