I am totally agree with the concept of hope. It is something we have long since outgrown.All it does is place our happiness and contentment in some far off future. If we live in hope, that's where will continue to be in our daily lives, never gaining ground on our issues, never progressing, always hoping for something better tomorrow.

It's one of the great lies we are sold by our governments. We are always sold on hope; the notion that you suffer through this now, but don't worry, it gets better somewhere down the line, at some indeterminable point in the future...

We need to recognise what we have now in THIS moment, disregard what we are told we need to make us happy; accept and be grateful for all that we have. It is only then that we will know the fullest extent of what the present moment can offer us, in light of the abundance already here.