Major or minor, doesn’t matter. Just something you’ve been hoping for to happen for years and years, despite many promises and declarations made of that thing happening. Only for it to never happen at all.
Two things come of mind to me.
For America, we will never ever see an Independent take hold of the presidency. It hasn’t happened for over 170+ years and that’s a long damn time since the last time a person representing an independent party has ever held office. The only successes an independent party ever sees is smaller governments or some seats somewhere in the house or senate, that’s about it.
But every election cycle, people are hamming up about how it’s going to be the year for independents, until the primaries come and go and we’re back to falling on two parties. I’ve stopped getting my hopes up and I stopped hoping the moment Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat because even he realized that was the only way he was going to get votes at all.
One other thing and it’s gaming related is that, there are still Nintendo fans out there hoping for a Mother 3 english release. It’s a game that was released in 2006 and it never left Japan since. Despite all of the re-releases of Mother and Earthbound, Mother 3 has not gotten a localization. It’s been released as a fan translation and I feel that’s the best we’re ever going to get.
It’s been 18 years since it’s original release and I think there’s no point in hoping now for Nintendo to release it. They’re too busy suing people.
That as human beings, we’ll never come together for a common cause. A large proportion of us are just selfish, delusional beings.
Being happy.
Al of them, katie
All.
Elder Scrolls 6 being released in my lifetime
The final book of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Stopping Climate Change.
Metroid Prime 4
Immortality. The tech is going to be too far away. Maybe my grandchildren.
I had the same hope when I was younger. Later on I imagined the last star dying and the utter dread the immortals would have to face.
I think they meant the immortality where you can live as long as you want to, not the kind where you can’t die. I don’t think anyone wants that…
Getting the job that I want in the field I dream of.
Enjoying a “career”. It seems once my financial survival is tied to something in it becomes an obligation instead of a novelty.
There’s a really great video by Filmcow that explains how hope is a poison for the mind. I think we’re living in a pretty hopeless world, and trying to desperately cling to the pretense that things will change without action from ourselves is dangerous and naive. If there’s something about the world that you passionately want to change and you’re not working to correct it, you will only disappoint yourself by hoping someone else will change it for you. Give up hope and embrace action.
I’d like to point out that you have only talked about hope without personal action to support a statement about hope as a whole. A better term for that would be wishful thinking. While I agree that not acting while hoping for change is foolish, I believe acting on hope can drive a person to perform beyond what would normally be achievable.
If the world is truly hopeless, then why would anybody put any effort into saving it? It seems to me that at least some level of hope for a better world or life would be a prerequisite toward making that world or life a reality.
If you want to see an independent win the presidency, vote for the only candidate in this election who has a reasonable chance of defeating the orange fascist, then put all your energy into campaigning for an end to FPTP
That said, I’ve given up hope on this country every treating fascists and white supremacists how they should be treated
That giving of yourself and being discerning, you could make sure to find balanced relationships.
People lie, to you and to themselves. Everyone wants to say they’re going to be their best person when times are tough. Reality can be quite different when the pain kicks in or dynamics change.
But at this point after countless emergencies while being the one to stand up in the end to carry the sisyphean boulders, the truth is people are going to stand back in a panic when shit hits the fan and I’m going to be the one to figure things out.
Best compromise I have settled on is surrounding myself with people who will help when I ask. It’s up to me to ask, plan, and keep all our heads above water, which is exausting, but they won’t blow me off.
It’s the best I have been able to find of the available optional combination of traits in people i find attractive. 🙃
It feels pretty pointless to write a first book now - everyone will assume I had an LLM do it for me.
I mean if you only enter wanted to write because it would get you writers clout then sure. You can still write to engage in the creative process and make something actually meaningful
True human connections
I’ve lost hope that things will ever get better. This is it, this is all life has to offer. If you don’t like it, well, suck it up.
