Hope Springs… ~ Denny Crane
I closed yesterday’s post with a mention of hope. Hope that such petitions can effect change, or at least have a significant impact. Hope too for the day when such petitions are no longer needed. Hope for respect and compassion towards all living things. And a hope I’ll always believe such things are possible. I hope hope truly does spring eternal.
Hope is a strange thing; it can be so many different things to different people. Some feel empowered by it, others disillusioned. In recent weeks it was the theme of an episode of CBS’s Criminal Minds. The show usually opens and closes with famous, and sometimes not so famous quotes. The 5th season episode “Mosley Lane” began with the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, “Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.” And it ended with those of Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”
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And maybe that’s the why of it. It’s what remains after everything else. We can always have hope, for we can never know for sure that there is none, can never absolutely know all that the future holds. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Though it can torment us as Nietzsche said. Perhaps easier sometimes if we could just lose all hope, and get on with dealing with what’s left, get off that hope roller coaster. How awful it is when hope fails, but still, I can’t imagine life without it. In the words of Albert Einstein, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” I think though, that my absolute favourite hope quote was uttered by William Shatner’s Denny Crane on Boston Legal. Such a delicious variation, in Denny’s words, “Hope springs a kernel.”
I named my dog Denny Crane