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Planting a seed is the ultimate act of hope. You push it into soil, give it water, nutrients, find a good spot for sun - and wait. A significant investment of time and resources, and there's no guarantee whatsoever that you'll get anything to reward your efforts.
Still, it is not a false hope. If you set the stage correctly, if you create the right conditions, you create an opportunity. All that's left is to see if the seeds you picked had any potential within them in the first place.
This is where I am right now. Many aspects of my life are at a nexus of potential.
If I were more cynical than I am, I'd be thinking of Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey. But maybe that's the tiny nagging worry in the back of my head that there's an infinitesimally small chance that the Large Hadron Collider might end the world...
Still, it is not a false hope. If you set the stage correctly, if you create the right conditions, you create an opportunity. All that's left is to see if the seeds you picked had any potential within them in the first place.
This is where I am right now. Many aspects of my life are at a nexus of potential.
If I were more cynical than I am, I'd be thinking of Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey. But maybe that's the tiny nagging worry in the back of my head that there's an infinitesimally small chance that the Large Hadron Collider might end the world...