Hope is hard to let go of.
Read this not too long ago and now it sits next to my computer where I can see it everyday-- "Hope is not a strategy".
I need a strategy for my own happiness, regardless of what exah does, whom I still love.
If you want to hold onto hope, then that's ok. I too hold onto hope.
But I think the difference is to not let the hope hold me back from finding my own happiness with myself and the wonderful things and people out there in the world I have yet to discover.
If I can do that, if you can do that, maybe we'll both bound out of bed instead of sometimes not being sure whether to bother getting up.