shout out to ms. ashley mayfly! here’s the explanation i promised you about ambition and hope.
out of the three theories, two of them are correlated like anatomy and physiology. “think big, aim high, expect nothing” is the structure and “optimistic heart with a pessimistic mind” is how it functions. in short, it’s basically the kazi way to say “F-it, moving on.”
this is my way of dealing with failure. failure is inevitable, and hope is the idea that makes it harder to move on. therefore, with each challenge i come across, i accept that i will face adversity at every step; moreover, i know i can trust myself, family, and friends, to help maneuver through the difficulty. to put this in practice, i first let my mind nitpick for flaws and leave it to my heart to figure out the angles. i don’t need hope to make what i want happen and i can’t expect the future because there are an infinite amount of possibilities (if you’re lucky, convergence will come with time). i think the energy you might put into hoping for a certain outcome is better directed towards having confidence in yourself under every circumstance.
you will hope and fail more times then you will hope and succeed, so why then do we correlate hope with success? In my opinion, hope is a hindsight bias. i won’t let it cloud my judgement.
