If hope is fragile, how is it that the desperate immigrants from India, china, Russia, Africa have it, and those who grew up here don’t?
I think hope is an outlook, and those are chosen/ set by your belief system. If you think you are a victim, if you think you are powerless to change your life, if you think sad-sack droopy drawer thots, your life will reflect that cynicism. Or not. Choice.
I’m not at all certain that you can muster hope by force of will. Immigrants tend to have it because all of the effort of immigrating would have been for nothing if they didn’t have it. The people who don’t have it here — who were born here — tend to come from environments where hope is a scarce commodity.
It’s a very simple formula — you either believe tomorrow will be better than today or you don’t.