Hope

" Hope does not come out of denial. Failure comes out of denial, I've learned in the last few years to acknowledge the awfulness of what is going on and to say it's really bad. Things do get better. There have been times in my life when I've been full of despair, when things have been really, really bad for me, and I look back and remember I got through it. When there are people, there is always hope. In all the awfulness, there are always the helpers. I remember an old colleague of mine used to say, this is not all of life it's just part of life". Debra Allcock Tyler summaries the concept of hope, beautifully, " When you're feeling really down and miserable, the best thing you can do is to do something for somebody else. You can't help but feel better about yourself when you've done something nice for other people. "