Anonymous thoughts about hope.
Not the easy thing — maintaining it when the evidence is against it.
The vulnerability of wanting what you don't yet have.
The exhaustion of hoping again after it didn't work the last time.
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Hope is not always the easy thing. Maintaining it in circumstances that don't support it, in periods where the evidence is against it, is an act of will that takes real energy. And there are times when hope feels like the most naive thing available — when the thing you're hoping for has let you down enough times that hoping again requires overriding experience.
The honest account of hope includes the cost of it. The vulnerability of wanting something and not yet having it. The exposure of maintaining the belief that things can be different.
Anonymous thoughts about hope posted here are the whole version — the wanting alongside the exhaustion of wanting. Without having to perform optimism.