Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Jul. 2009
Hope is defined as one of the feelings positive and constructive that a human being can experience. Hope is that feeling that makes an individual build a situation of improvement or well-being towards the near or distant future. That is, the person has total confidence in this regard what will happen or will happen what you expect For such a feeling to be present, the person must have a attitude optimistic, turning then the hope in something better, something that on the contrary will be very difficult to feel in cases of depression, anguish or anxiety.
Unlike optimism, hope is a type of sensation that generally arises in certain and specific situations, while optimism is rather a constant attitude towards the way in which events unfold in one's life. Hope can appear and disappear according to circumstances and, at the same time we consider ourselves hopeful about the resolution of a particular issue, we may not feel the same when circumstances they change. Hope is then described as a state of mind and not as an attitude towards life, although both things (hope and optimism) can complement each other.
From a religious point of view, hope is not simply a state of mind, but it is also one of the three theological virtues posited by the Catholic religion which, together with faith and charity or love, have been given by God to the human being so that this is the reflection of him on Earth. Here, hope ceases to be a physical sensation of joy or satisfaction to be transformed into a grace that we must all recognize in our intimate hearts and put at the service of the building of a better tomorrow.
One of the most important Catholic theologians and philosophers in history, Saint Thomas Aquinas He has defined it as that virtue that predisposes and enables the trustworthy individual and then he will have full certainty that he will be able to achieve the eternal life that God has promised him.
It is also worth noting that these three theological virtues together with the cardinal virtues of the temperance, justice, fortitude and prudence they make up a unity that ideally defines the Christian man.
In this sense, the other side of hope will be despair It will not only imply the absence of hope but also the feeling of anger and rage, that is, there is no hope and the state is accompanied by anger.
Hope can also be approached from an unreal or fantasy point of view. This happens when we are in the presence of people who develop a high level of false hope to manage their daily lives. These false hopes are often characterized by a lack of reality or by not being applicable in the life of every day, which can easily lead the person to suffer all kinds of disappointments, surprises and disappointments. There are also individuals who trigger in others, by their actions and behaviors, false hopes that of course when they discover themselves they will plunge the person who placed their trust in him into a state of disappointment.
Meanwhile, we can find the concept of hope integrating another important concept of our language and that presents a widespread use, such is the case of Life expectancy.
This will be called the average number of years that a person lives population total over a certain period of time. It should be noted that a distinction is made by gender, that is, the sexes are measured separately, female and male, of course, obtain specific information based on the number of years each sex lives.
Life expectancy will also be influenced by factors how to be the hygiene that is practiced, quality health care, wars, among others.
The measurement carried out in 2010 showed that life expectancy is between 69 and 64 years, although the It usually varies substantially depending on the place on the planet that is observed, because for example in North America and Europe is almost 73 years old and on the African continent it is nothing more than 55 years.
And Esperanza is also a proper noun corresponding to the feminine gender. It has a Latin origin and precisely means the wish for a better future to come.
Topics in Hope