I came across this quote in the wee hours of today “And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we hope” I read it, digested it within me but didn’t know what else to make of it. Well not until I went into the bush with my mom in search of herbs. The sun was merciless, the kind that sits directly on your back and makes the ground feel like it’s breathing heat. At some point, I got exhausted and decided to sit under a papaya tree that offered just enough shade to feel relief.
While I sat there catching my breath, my eyes fell on the ground. I noticed a lone ant carrying a speckle of grain, a tiny thing moving with purpose through the dry soil. And then I thought, do ants ever say their last prayers before stepping out of their holes to find food? Because if we think about it, millions of ants are trampled upon every day, knowingly or unknowingly. Yet they still come out, every single day, carrying something, searching for something, trying again.
It hit me then that maybe ants are the most hopeful creatures to walk the earth. They live every day surrounded by danger, by odds stacked heavily against them and still, they move with faith. No hesitation, no fear that stops them long enough to quit. Just movement. Just belief that the grain they’re carrying matters enough to keep going.
Thinking of it, I guess that’s us too although not as risky.
We walk out each day into a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. We try, we fail, we hurt but we still move. We still hope. Even when it makes no sense, when logic tells us to stop trying, when everything feels like it’s falling apart, there’s always something inside us that would whisper, maybe it’ll get better.
Hope!
It’s irrational, small, and stubborn but it’s what keeps life moving. It’s what makes us dive into retrospection in those terrible moments and we remember that persistence does make hope come alive. So maybe hope doesn’t always look like strength. It’s probably just survival, one tiny step, one small prayer, one brave moment at a time.
And maybe, just maybe, that’s enough to keep is going.
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