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a_pope_on_a_rope t1_je1jr96 wrote

Hope is always under assault, though. If someone were to self-actualize with hope, it would be another yet another new struggle to maintain it.

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MentalNomad13 t1_je20ow6 wrote

So true. Even positivity come under attack from negativity. Hope requires much energy to create, maintain and gove it to others. Negativity that kills it only requires a destructive mind, of which there are many loud variants.

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cybicle t1_je2nza7 wrote

Plenty of people lean on hope and positivity as ways to absolve themselves from putting effort into resolving the problems they face.

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Pharap t1_je3k9x7 wrote

Precisely why I prefer Stoicism.

'Abandon hope and learn to cope'.

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