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@Vastmind said:

Disappointment is when your mind made an appointment and reality dissed it.

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Hope would seem to represent a spectrum of related mental activities. It could be argued, I think, that belief is the extreme upper end of that spectrum, but even belief can have its uses. Can you find the middle way without first knowing the extremes? How can hope be used skillfully? Mindfully? Do hope and fear go hand in hand?

At 80 years of age, the hopes - and yes, beliefs - that long dominated much of my own thinking have faded away, along with most of the questions that once seemed so urgent.
I find it quite liberating - even illuminating. Hopes remain, but seem unimportant. Everything will proceed as it will - enjoy the ride.

I stay informed….and bec of the reasons you mentioned, am very picky about my news sources. Im just not the type that ignorance is bliss, hahaha…I want to know….its just taken me most of my life to learn NOT to digest it or wear the burden of the tragedy . I stay active in the causes I’m passionate about, and let go of the hope and expectations of the entire human race.
I try my best within my community, and leave the rest up to happenstance ,frankly.
This world was fucked up before me and will be after me. I can play my small, but effective part on the world stage.

The other arena is my kids. I ‘hoped’ and expected a lot/different things than how THAT turned out, hahaha. 🫨😅

Disappointment is when your mind made an appointment and reality dissed it.

Hope is very much related to outcome. All you can really do is control what you do, some actions will lead you closer to a desired outcome than others, but ultimately the outcome is beyond your control.

Any hope I have for the world is being extinguished by the daily horrors much of our society turns a blind eye towards. Countless people suffering from poverty, homelessness, starvation, violence... and most of it for power and greed, whether capitals trying to extract as much profit from the blood of poor and working people to colonial, imperialist states like Russia and Israel are trying to conquer and cleanse sovereign lands for themselves. In Gaza alone, more than 19,400 Palestinians have been killed in the last 2 months, 70% of them women and children. To put this one single horror in context, "More children have been killed in just over three weeks in Gaza than in all of the world's conflicts combined in each of the past three years." And while the state of Israel is engaged in this ethnic cleansing, we're just sitting back and watching it happen while our government funds the genocide. What's even more discouraging is the fact that the Jewish people themselves have suffered this same kind of violence for generations; and to see Israel turn around and subject the inhabitants of the land they wish to make a part of their own Jewish state to the same violence that displaced them from much of Europe is absolutely demoralizing. How can we ever break the cycles of violence and heal these wounds when it seems like no one is willing to stop when they are in the position of power and dominance and seeking to expand their own territory and markets and spheres of influence through subjugation and oppression? How can we expect Russia to stop when we ourselves or our allies won't? And how will we ever get our nation to care about the plight of Palestinian children when we can't even get it to care about the children starving and dying unnoticed our own streets?