i believe hope is the most dangerous feeling one can feel, hope keeps you chained to an abusive spouse, hope keeps you deluded in the face of imminent death, hope makes you gamble your life savings to buy a bigger boat, imagine if you will, that you have an addicted love one, said love is constantly overdosing, he goes in and out of rehab and hospitals constantly, you know that if he keeps doing this he will die, and yet you have hope that he will sober up, years go by and that hope never fades, meanwhile his addiction grows stronger, he is spending hundreds of dollars a day on heroin, you cant stop thinking about him at work and school, your performance suffers and you are a nervous wreck, people comment on how tired and aged you look, your life is a nauseating rollercoaster good and bad news, is going to survive this overdose? is rehab going to work this time? is it not better to just ignore this loved one at this point, stop letting him toy with your emotions, no says society, you must have hope, for his sake! the point of hope was never to encourage positivity and happiness, rather it is to encourage mass delusion, to shut yourself away from the real world and live in a land of make believe, no wonder we encourage children to use their imagination, because they will never stop using it as an adult