The dark night of hope

15/12/2023 Nilson Lattari

Even the most beautiful and inspirational signals have moments of hopelessness. In our existence, nothing is completely eternal and wonderful. Normally, we try to convince ourselves that everything is fine, even if we are going to experience tragedies ahead. Maybe we keep inside us a kind of Pandora’s box, and if we open it, our fears will provoke us with depression and our hope cannot help us because our fears are afraid of light.
When everything around us breaks down we feel hopelessness. If we hear people making inhumane comments and we smile at them as if we agree with them, it means that we use our last way to survive: hope. This action seems like we sail through the sea of insensitive people and this situation is the worst condition for living.
This situation is a test when we put our hope and wishes in danger. It is an endless game, like a storm that hurts us for a long time and it seems like the end of the world. But we know, certainly, that this storm will finish, and this thought means hope in our hearts. It is about situations that we don’t know and experience, and what kind of person we will be after life storms.
Restarting is similar to hope. We know that we have to restart every day and this action gives us a meaning to live. On dark nights we try to find the light and sense of life or another way to move forward.
There are moments in our life when we realize that there are insensible people around us, and there is a disorganized world controlled by bad people. And our north is the hope we have in our souls. This is the way to reach the other side of anywhere, a place far away.
There is no place where hope lives, inhabits or rests. Hope and we don’t know this imaginary place but it is closer to us. We feel it. Hope is the partner we have to follow and a whisper that sounds in our ears: it says “Go ahead”. Hope lives in front of us and above all things.
Dark nights don’t belong to us. They are in us. The most important thing on dark nights is demonstrating that the light exists. Because of this, we know the gloom and we know the light because we compare both.
Life is about knowing the world. Hope means to know the world or try to know it. Our glance is the light that our hope needs to overcome the dark night. Our glance is the point of no return to change our lives. If we look around and feel anguish, there is no hope enough to sustain our lives. Trusting and living are synonyms because there is no sense in living without trust in life.
The dark night of hope is our anguish. But, hopelessness is not a sign of failure. It is only the moment the adventurer stops on his journey to breathe deeply.
Dark nights exist because they are the ingredients of our life cycle. They exist just as the light is to the gloom, and the night always waits for the sunrise to fade them in the air.