“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.”

We explore hope as optimism, as necessity, as beacon shining a light forward. One thing it should not function as is an “opiate for the masses.” Hope, like love and faith, is not a passive condition. I love the idea of how it can be a call to action in a time that should be viewed as an emergency. It asks us to look at situations with urgency rather than bland acceptance and resignation.

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