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.
You make decisions by force of will. If you wait until you FEEL hopeful, you will accomplish nothing, and you might well die, because the reality of life is that life is hard.
“Pick up your mat,” the Good Lord said. He didn’t say, “Wait until you feel hopeful.” The whiners are not only not picking up their mats, they are blaming others and expecting others to pick up their mats and rescue them, too.
Life doesn’t work like that.