Hopelessness Soars as Over 3.8 Million Americans Applied for Unemployment Last Week as Total Now More than 30 Million
Are You Overwhelmed with Feelings of Hopelessness?
Capture Hope from Hopelessness
The new report, which covers the week ending April 25, pushes the six-week total of job losses since states adopted strict stay-at-home measures to 30.2 million. Unemployment at this scale hasn’t been recorded since the Great Depression when the jobless rate peaked at 25 percent.
Hope for the Future?
Maybe when you look at our social and economic woes, you wonder if you can find any hope for the future. After all, the Coronavirus Pandemic has caused a stock market crash, businesses to close and unemployment to soar…and that’s on top of the health scare. Possibly a feeling of hopelessness overwhelms you.
During moments of weakness, you feel that life is filled with hopelessness. After all, what other conclusion could you possibly draw; especially if your personal life continually deals you pain and sorrow. You cry in despair. “Oh God, why must I suffer? Why does life treat me so cruelly? I don’t think I can take it anymore. Even though the changing seasons promise a new birth and renewal of spirit, I sense that my spirit dies a little more each day. Hopelessness and despair make me believe that only my total demise will bring the relief I so much yearn for.”
Maybe you wish you could live a carefree life without troubles, without worries, existing in a heavenly paradise. I’m sure you already know that nobody can offer you that. World-improvers and altruists have attempted to create the utopias they envisioned in their deepest dreams and desires, only to manifest hell-like environments that caused untold millions misery and death. Reading the pages of history tells you many sad tales of well-intentioned plans going awry.
Ok, if hopelessness reigns as the human condition, where do we gain the strength to do anything at all? Allow me to explain why hopelessness hanging around as a permanent visitor is an illusion.
Is There Any Good News?
Here’s the good news. The world is a marvelous place, filled with magic, with the joy of existence. However, you must realize and accept the following. If there is up, there is down. If there is in, there is out. If there is hot, there is cold. If there is pain, there is pleasure. If there is misery, there is joy. If there is hate, there is love. If there is black, there is white. By the way, becoming attached to the belief that white must always win, will cause you unnecessary suffering.
Let’s arrive at a happy conclusion and discover that if there is hopelessness, there is also hope. Yes, there is definitely hope. Why? Nothing exists without its opposite because if we turn hopelessness upside down, we have hope, and it’s ours for the taking. It is exactly when there doesn’t seem to be any hope that we are closest to embracing it.
The Place Where Hope Exists
You may be asking, “If hope exists, where do I find it.?” Well, you won’t discover it outside of who you are; so, don’t try to search for it in the material world.
Currently, the Coronavirus Pandemic seems to control world events. That means to overcome the hopelessness that overwhelms you… you have to capture some important insights that will allow the world to reveal its many wonders.
Do you understand that you create your reality; it manifests from your deepest thoughts and beliefs. Yes, you possess the “Holy Grail” of hope right now, whether you realize it or not.
Is your state of mind so overwhelmed with negativity that you feel your pain and suffering is forevermore? Maybe you suddenly realized how dire your financial situation is or how unrewarding your love is.
The Pain of Bittersweet Memories
Possibly, you suffer from the bittersweet memory of driving around one special evening during the holiday season with your beloved spouse, the love of your life who passed on, to a place we must all go. Tears fall freely when you remember getting lost, only to come upon a neighborhood that displayed the most brilliant of all Christmas scenes, with colorful visions of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
It’s possible that the warm breeze of a day in mid-summer, a delightful day that blesses us with the melodious songs of chirping birds, the sweet fragrance of various flowers and the rich green of the rolling landscape, tortures you with the heartbreaking memory of love, love lost to another. These so-called seasons of joy only increase your heartache and sorrow.
Still, there is always hope that a new day of joy and happiness dawns in your life. Let’s overcome hopelessness by capturing success and happiness. We do that by mastering our thoughts, feelings and actions.
The Dawning of a New Day
Do you know the dawning of a new day has only one simple requirement? Now, I can’t guarantee the requirement erases all of your pain and suffering. However, you can definitely discover the sweetness of hope from within. The “Holy Grail” of hope is purpose in life, and you find it by searching within. Purpose in life moves you forward, even during days of darkness, allowing hope to remain by your side.
Now your purpose doesn’t have to be life-shattering, although that’s a possibility. It could be something as simple as a passion for poetry or a love of music. When social distancing ends, you might fervently enjoy evenings of bingo or karaoke.
Ask yourself these questions. What brings you pleasure and satisfaction in life? What do you enjoy? I’m sure something gives you pleasure, satisfaction and joy. Do you know that most people who succeed are indulging in an activity that supplies them extreme pleasure?
If you are so depressed that you can’t think of anything that could have any purpose, try to remember what once brought you joy and satisfaction and meditate on it. I’m sure something in the distant past made your life worthwhile. Maybe, it’s an “oldie” you can retrieve or a memory that sparks your creativity. Can you make it part of your now and future or create a new present moment?
Purpose in Life Overcomes Hopelessness
Purpose in life is a prerequisite for success and happiness, so go ahead and discover it. Imagine waking up every morning with hope and enthusiasm. Visualize having something marvelous to look forward to. If you possess purpose, you possess happiness. If you possess happiness, I know you possess purpose in life. Possessing purpose in life can eliminate most of your feelings of hopelessness.
You think and plan, but the passion you need comes from within, from the heart. By choosing and embarking on a path with heart, your cup of wonder overflows with love, happiness, fulfillment, laughter and peace of mind.
Realize that you don’t have to live with the pain of hopelessness sabotaging the quality of your life.
Conclusion
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Robert Meyer
National Managing Editor
Conservative Party USA
