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Re: Fear and HopeEnlightened.thinker said Apr 23, 2007, 2:57 PM: |
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I wonder if he meant, he tried not to hold any expectation for something. There is a difference I think. If we expect, we then can be disappointed. What we have hope for does not meet our expectations. There is a Chekhov short story called:”In Exile”. An exiled prisoner tries to tell a newly exiled Siberian prisioner that he should accept his fate so he will not live in disappointment. By accepting his fate, he can work to live in the reality he must inhabit. The younger man is aghast, (as you say Jill) that he wants him to give up hope. This older man is seen as callous and cold. Truth is, the man had no way of escape or release from his Siberian “prison”. To have his wife be sentenced to coming there would be cruel. The old man had seen it over and over. He tells him over and over and over that “he’ll get used to it”. Sometimes, in light of circumstances it is cruel to hope for something that will nver “be” keeping us mired in the belief things will change. Sometimes, we need to face a very different reality. This older man was only trying to save this younger man from the despair he suffered. But…we have to always learn for ourselves! Expectations, cripple us sometimes. Different from hope, we sometimes see them as the same thing. |
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