Hope

The life that grows, not the whole life, is divided into time periods. But the parts don’t make sense if we don’t see the whole. The perspective of the future, i.e. hope, therefore necessarily belongs to work, development, progress. Life, which flows like a river in time, is heading for the next moment, tomorrow, so it must reckon with tomorrow and expect it. If the sun stopped shining, it would stop growth in nature. Hope is the sun of people’s lives. Dante rightly wrote at the gate of hell, eternal death, the inscription: “Leave all hope!” So those who have passed away forever have no hope customs and their happiness no longer awaits. In the true sense of the word, however even those who have already attained eternal bliss do not live in hope. Their hope was fulfilled, their faith grew in direct vision and experience. The trinity of faith, hope and love belongs too today to time, to our life here on earth. In eternity, only love does not cease (1 Cor 13: 8).
This psychological reasoning will also help us to understand the need for hope in the Christian sense of the word. We know well what important period in a person’s life is the so-called growing up, period sometimes from twelve, sometimes from fourteen to about sixteen years. Educators of that age they say “hard years”, popularly called “stick years”. It is a time of great change. A new person is being created. For the understanding of young people in this period still remains an interesting Mendouce’s book The Youth’s Soul (Lame de ľ adolescent) called. According to the author, the crisis of youth occurs at the moment when the simple child’s security of action begins to be lost. Children because they do not have big problems. Their thinking corresponds to what is in their circle. Even when a healthy boy cries, he does not know the hopelessness and attainability of desire; the future is straightforward, certain. The period of adolescence, however
it starts with dreaming. The mental horizon begins to open long distances, great desires and desires are born. Surprising their incoherence. What all we didn’t want to be in time maturing! The fourteen-year-old boy doesn’t care that he can’t be a violin virtuoso, an aviation officer, a politician, a scientist, a poet, an entrepreneur, priests … There are many ideals and they are all taken seriously.
In the meantime, however, life remains in its old cramped sidewalks. Parents don’t want to understand that guy she is no longer a little boy and that she is no longer the one she is starting to talk about outside. Therefore, resistance is born against parents, the desire to flee the house, from the environment that suffocates takeoff. Adolescents therefore experience spontaneous, more serious, as everyone around thinks, the eternal contradiction between the ideal and reality. However, it is not possible to live in contradictions. Wanted solution. The character of the future person will be created according to how you resolved the question posed in your youth. The solutions are always personal and therefore diverse. They could however, categorize into approximately four groups. He described the first two types with the subtle satire of Cervantes. The incorrigible idealist is Don Quixote. So that he doesn’t have to renounce his ideals, he does not want to see the world with his real face. Fights against windmills; rural the girl he only dimly saw becomes the fairy-tale ideal Dulcimer. On the contrary, the representative of what is now called bourgeois nature is Quixote’s guide to Sancho Panza. He sees reality up too good, but that’s why he lost his ideals. We will meet both types in daily life. Most cheerful people accept reality, they recognize that the world is as it is. Their ideals are then good for touching ideas and paper festive speeches, which drive away the boredom of everyday life. Idealists are good at “blazing,” as they say. However, they are lost to practical life existence. However, not all idealists are empty quarrels. Some they are revolutionaries. They see well that the world is not responding ideals. But why can’t they turn this world upside down, his systems to destroy and establish a new, ideal order? It appears, that only a little courage is enough. A revolution can also take place succeed. Worse, however, is when a newly formed company again compared with the ideals that led to its creation. Then new discrepancies are identified.
The fourth type has the greatest success in life combat, which we could call an eclectic, a man of choice. He also had many ideals during his adolescence. But you almost are realized that not all could be done. Picked therefore only one of them and for the one as for the pearl from the parable of the gospel (cf. Mt 13:45), he sacrifices everything. He will then become a famous musician, painter, discoverer, I guess and a saint, or, unfortunately, this often happens,
castaway. Whoever bets everything on one card, either wins a lot, or lose everything. All four types: idealist, burgher, revolutionary, eclectic have their weakness. Contradiction between ideals and the fact cannot be completely solved. This is also confirmed by historical development and history of philosophical schools. Plato transferred all ideals to the «world of ideas». Here on earth are only the dim shadows of everything beautiful, noble. Aristotle does not believe in the other world either ideas. He must, as he says, acknowledge his limitations and be content with little.