How to stay hopeful, part 3
Oh, hi friends!
I’ve been thinking about two different kinds of hope:
There’s granular hope. This is when you’re putting incredible pressure on each moment, each play-by-play. Granular hope is a rollercoaster. One thing breaks the wrong way and all is lost.
Then there’s macro hope. Big-picture thinking and an overall sense that everything is going to turn out OK. You don’t fret if one thing breaks the other way because overall you believe — you’re hopeful — that you’re going to get what you want in the end.
It’s really hard to maintain hope minute by minute and also on a much larger scale. Hard’s not the right word. It’s tiring.
Maybe the way to maintain hope is to turn the dial up and down. If you get consumed by the tiny details, enjoy the obsession — but don’t extrapolate that to the big picture. And if you want to luxuriate in the idea that everything will be fine, don’t get seduced by a few granular details that found you when you weren’t looking.
You don’t have to be everything, feel everything, and consume everything all at once. Adjust. Moderate. And don’t forget to nap.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara