By: M Ahmad
Hope, Faith and Trust are powerful concepts that play significant roles in our lives, shaping our relationships, decisions, and perceptions. Hope is an optimistic or positive expectation about the future. It involves desiring or anticipating that something desired or favourable will happen.
Hope is often based on believing that circumstances can improve or that desired outcomes are attainable. It can provide motivation, resilience, and a sense of possibility in challenging situations. Hope can be deeply personal and can arise from individual aspirations, societal changes, or collective movements. It is often associated with a positive mindset and can contribute to overall well-being.
Hope is the essence of life and it not only gives you the strength to overcome a pain, but it also makes the journey for the future easier. When I’m hopeful for anything, I’m thinking that sorrow and difficulty of today will soon end. Hope keeps us stay positive. Our mind has lots of effects on our actions and if tells us to stay strong on a path and not to lose courage, we will do so. Hope helps us to ignore the sufferings of the present. When we stay positive about our future, and feel that we have to fight to win the problems, our probability to succeed increases. It happens because we fight trying to stay mentally strong and give our best efforts.
Trust is the reliance or confidence placed on someone or something based on their reliability, integrity, or ability. It involves having faith in another person or entity’s character, competence, and intentions. Trust is typically built through consistent behaviour, honesty, and the fulfillment of promises. It often implies a sense of predictability and the expectation that the trusted person or thing will act in a dependable and desirable manner.
It is a deep rooted belief that develops through a consistent display of reliability, integrity, and competence. It emerges from a rational evaluation of evidence, experiences, and observations. Trust is built over time and can be established in interpersonal relationships, institutions, or systems. It relies on the expectation that someone or something will act in a predictable, responsible, and ethical manner based on past performance.
Trust involves a mutual understanding of expectations and a willingness to be vulnerable. When trust is established, individuals or entities feel safe enough to rely on one another, share personal information, or delegate responsibilities. Trust is often reciprocal, requiring a balance of giving and receiving.
The connection between Hope, faith and trust can be shown by the joy a child experiences when their parent tells them that they are going to visit Grandma tomorrow. The child believes that they will go to Grandma’s place based on their parent’s word — that is faith. At the same time, that belief within the child sparks an unstoppable joy — that is hope. The child’s natural trust in their parent’s promise is faith; the child’s squeals of delight and jumping in places are the expressions of hope. Faith and hope are complementary. Faith is grounded in the reality of the past; hope is looking to the reality of the future. Without faith, there is no hope; without hope, there is no true faith.
It is so important for us to have faith, trust, and confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn’t die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.
All three terms — hope, faith, and trust — involve relying on or expecting something or someone. They can shape our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Additionally, they are subjective experiences that can vary among individuals and cultures. Hope, faith, and trust can also influence our perceptions of the world, impact our relationships, and provide a sense of security or meaning. Despite their similarities, the terms — hope, faith, and trust — differ in their specific meanings, contexts, and the level of evidence or assurance involved.
Those who never leave hope, actually make it till the end!
The author is a regular writer for this newspaper and can be reached at specialachivers78@gmail.com)
