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Comments on: The Paradox of Hope https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432 A mid-life shrink raps about life, friendship, psychology, and politics Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:13:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Janine Kovac https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432&cpage=1#comment-1738 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:13:20 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=1432#comment-1738 In reply to shrinkrapped.

WELL! When you put it that way! I can’t wait!

]]> By: shrinkrapped https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432&cpage=1#comment-1737 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 02:20:25 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=1432#comment-1737 In reply to hbksloss.

Thanks, Heidi

]]> By: shrinkrapped https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432&cpage=1#comment-1736 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 02:19:56 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=1432#comment-1736 In reply to Janine Kovac.

So funny! Someday, Janine, your kids will be gone, you will be old with your hormones dried up and your hot flashes done with–and presto!–you will have less laundry to fold. I promise!

]]> By: hbksloss https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432&cpage=1#comment-1735 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:43:36 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=1432#comment-1735 To live without hope is crushing to me. It is part of what I believe makes us human, but imposing it or forcing it is unbearable too. I guess acceptance is more important in some ways. We must accept those around us as they are: with or without hope. By the way, I love your last line! “It is when we make room for hopelessness that hope, too, might find a little space.” Priceless!

]]> By: Janine Kovac https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432&cpage=1#comment-1734 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 05:44:12 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=1432#comment-1734 In reply to shrinkrapped.

Lorrie Goldin, I wish I knew what I could come up with if I didn’t have laundry to fold. I wish I knew!

]]> By: shrinkrapped https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432&cpage=1#comment-1733 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 05:22:05 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=1432#comment-1733 In reply to Janine Kovac.

This is so astute, Janine–what can you come up with when you DON’T have laundry to fold? Thanks for your thoughts.

]]> By: Janine Kovac https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=1432&cpage=1#comment-1732 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:48:21 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=1432#comment-1732 The thing that irritates me about hope is that it seems to be this idea about something in the future: a feeling, a destination, a pay-off. But hope inherently doesn’t come with a game plan or a trail of breadcrumbs. For me hopelessness is similar: it’s the assumption that there will never be a trail of breadcrumbs or that the pay-off doesn’t exist. I think there is almost always something in our here-and-now that brings comfort and always something that brings discontent, but to attach future expectations, is exhausting. Who has time for that! I’m too busy for hope or hopelessness. I got laundry to fold!

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