As the only intelligent species on the planet in a meaningful way, we humans take pride or rather, believe in the fact that we run our lives using our intelligence and rational thinking and while that might be true to some extent, we mostly run our lives with emotions.

Emotions form the core of the personality of every single individual and I personally believe that the kind of emotions we hold as individuals, have a huge impact on the life we lead and the future that we build. I have tested this out personally over the past years.

But no matter what kind of person you are, nobody is left untouched by any emotions that a human is capable of having, be it sadness or happiness or jealousy or any other type of positive or negative emotion.

So, I wanted to ask myself today, what the strongest human emotion is. Out of the many, many different types we feel in an almost infinite number of situations, which is the single most, strongest one.

The Twisted Ways of Life

I often like to say that life is like a movie. Just as in a movie, where the audience gets to feel a varied range of emotions from start to finish, in life too, we get to do the same.

And to be honest, life would be pretty boring if we could only feel a certain type of way all the time. Even an eternity of happiness could get boring at some point. Or am I mad to think so?

Anyways, life and it’s twisted ways make us feel both positive and negative feelings and while anger, jealousy, hatred and sadness might feel like really strong and powerful emotions, I think, that positive feelings like love, joy, inspiration are even stronger.

I don’t know. I can’t explain why. But there’s something about positive emotions and the feeling of liberation that comes with them that trump all negative ones and I think you would agree with me here.

But what among the positive ones is the strongest? Is it love? It is happiness? Which one is it? I think you already know the answer and might have heard of this before. It is hope. Hope is the strongest human emotion.

Hope Gives Life Meaning

When I say hope gives life meaning, I don’t mean it lightly. I absolutely believe in that statement and I’m going to tell you why. You see, we humans are natural born adventurers. We are explorers and have always been that way since our forefathers. It’s hardwired into us.

All that means is that we are a species that likes to keep its eyes on the future. The ‘promise of tomorrow’ if you will. There is only one emotion that can continuously steer us towards this tomorrow land and it is hope and in doing so, it gives our human life a purpose, a meaning.

It doesn’t matter if you are experience good times or bad times in your present time, you are always hopeful that even better times will arrive in the future. Hope works wonders especially during those rough patches. I have experienced it all too well.

Hope is that shimmer of light in the darkness that is enough on its own to battle even an eternity of darkness to guide you to your destination, one step at a time. As a species, we have already been doing so for thousands of years and will continue to do so until the end times.

So, stay hopeful my friends, and never give up. Life sometimes closes doors in your face but it also opens another one somewhere. Let your hope guide you to it!