Hope is crazy because it's easier, less painful, and less effort to be cynical.
Hope is crazy because the 60s and 70s are far behind us.
Hope is crazy because you may have had it once, but were let down.
Hope is crazy because everybody's out for him/herself.
Hope is crazy because it takes up precious energy from making your first million.
Hope is crazy because the world is going to end soon anyway.
Hope is crazy because the ozone layer is already destroyed and no one is going to pull those soccer moms out of their 8 cyl. SUVs.
Hope is crazy because hope is for the young, the slightly imbalanced and the very old.
Hope is crazy because it means keeping your heart open.
Hope is crazy because there's nothing to hope for.
Here's a quote I happened upon while googling something else:
I want to say something to all of you
Who have become a part
Of the fabric of my life.
The color and texture
Which you have brought into my being
Have become a song,
And I want to sing it forever.
There is an energy in us
Which makes things happen
When the paths of other persons
Touch ours
And we have to be there
And let it happen.
When the time
Of our particular sunset comes
Our thing, our accomplishment
Won't really matter a great deal.
But the clarity and care
With which we have loved others
Will speak with vitality
Of the great gift of life
We have been for each other.
©1972 Gregory Norbet O.S.B., Weston Priory, Weston, Vermont
Norbet's music is still pretty much the same as it was in the 70's - very sincere, reeking of polyester and Kahlil Gibran.
Hope is crazy because it's cheesy, corny, silly, naive and a little ridiculous.
In the bible it says, "Now these three remain, faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love."
If we've already lost our faith and our hope, what comes next?
