A small ripple, with an extraordinary effect. Night Shyamalan, we the lady has arrived to inspire a character to continue writing a novel…the book will be a flop, no real fame, but, eventually, a child will find it in a second hand store, using it as his call to change the world. Thinking back try to remember “The Lady in the Water” by M. We all have our purpose, sometimes it is large like fighting for a political cause but then there are the smaller ripples, like merely giving a book to someone who uses it to inspire there true cause.

It is finding hope in these small, insignificant moments that keeps me driving forward. “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes” – St Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis c. They become these little things, that at low points in my world strength my resolve to push forward. Myself, I find my little sliver of hope within small things, like winning two dollars on a lotto ticket, an old acquaintance reaching out for my opinion on something they know I am highly proficient in or receiving a package with a gift I was not expecting. We all grasp for some higher cosmic order in our world, seeking signs that may, or may not, be there. What is it that takes all this hope for a blissful future from me, is it situational or something deeper. Be it financial, spiritual, emotional or whatever hope is drained from my world. As my world cavers in around me I am at a loss for what I can do to stabilize the structure of my mind. Hope becomes an ideal that I grasp for but slowly lose faith in. An iconic line from Dante’s Inferno that was written across the entrance to hell….”Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”.

Abandon all hope ye who enter here