“Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion - simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.”

- The Architect (Matrix Reloaded)

I was thinking about how true and deep that statement is. Hope leads you to keep on going even when all odds are against you, it’s what keeps you going even when you’re hardest hit. It’s what you use to overcome apparent logic, it’s what you use to overcome a mountain of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You keep thinking of the little engine that could, you keep your head down and just whisper to yourself “I think I can, I think I can…” and when you reach the top, you have that million-dollar smile and you say “Yea baby I know I can!!!” I mean, once I get going like that, even the Energizer bunny’s got nothing on me.

But on the flip side, it can be a weakness, it can be dangerous because hope can blind you to obvious facts and realities. It can endanger your well-being, and perhaps even cause you to risk self-preservation in futile pursuit of what may be a an unattainable goal.

So between hope and delusion, where and how do you draw the line?