People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do, every plan we make is kind of a lie. We’re closing our eyes and pretending the day won’t ever come when we won’t need to make any more plans. Hope is the biggest lie there is, and it is the best. You have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn’t keep going at all

- from Steven Spielberg’s Taken (2002)

One thing about me, I hate to give advices. Another thing about me, I rarely ask for one. Sounds fair enough? Detached, is what it is. A friend told me “Sometimes, I wish I can be like you.” “Insensitive?”, I asked. “Yes,” she agreed. Before we all agree on that, I’d like to make it clear that I’m talking about life decisions, not mundane things. When I was younger, I thought that I know a lot of things. Would you believe that I even dreamt of having a radio show ala Joe D’ Mango, thinking that coming up with solutions to other people’s problems can be a self-satisfying career. That was when I haven’t got any real problems of my own to solve. A few years into being an adult, I realized that such endeavor is ultimately that: self-satisfying. You give “smart” advice, peppered with words that are more or less superfluous, when all you really want to say is “Do the right thing,” because what else should anyone do in any case?

At any rate, I know the danger of keeping to oneself too much. That is why I’m not trying to say that let’s stop listening to each other; let’s stop venting out to each other; let’s stop encouraging each other and telling each other that everything will turn out right. Who knows? It just might. When things go haywire, some people just need a sympathetic ear or two that will listen. The mouths that go with those ears may sometimes come up with wise words; sometimes, empty words. It doesn’t matter because such exercise builds friendships whichever way, and for some that’s a worthy accomplishment in place of resolution.

But what is it about hope? Why do we give it although there are times when we don’t even have it in ourselves? I guess the quote said it well – “else, we wouldn’t keep going at all.” I don’t think there’s any better motivation than that.

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