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A sense of hope drives everything that we invest ourselves into. We hope things are going to work out in our favor, so there's no reason to change course. There's an interesting video that Martha Beck did several years ago about hope and fear versus trust and contentment. These are two dualities that play off of one another: If you operate on hope and fear then it's always just going to vacillate from one end of the "timeline" to the other. But if you take it from the standpoint of trust and contentment, you can decide that you're content with what you have and where you are in your life and trust that that will continue. But the reality is that it goes back to hope and fear. You have to use both alternately. Another way to look at it is as a braid or a spiral so that you can access each of those axes at any one point. If you're in hope and fear, you can switch to trust and contentment as they're both braided together.  That's a better way to look at it, instead of being on a timeline and ping-ponging back and forth.]