Quote Originally Posted by Zezlar View Post
Don't get your hopes up.

There is no shame in hope. Hope is a wonderfully human concept and I like to hope every day, from innocent hopes born of laziness to more serious hopes born of concern, I shall not cease in my hoping.

I can't "get my hopes up" because I don't harbor such a concept in my being. I hope long, I hope full, I hope even when one is (said to be) silly to have done so, and in the end, even if that hope brings no good reward, I will know that it was not my error - it was not my error to hope - and thus, there is no shame to do so. Disappointment must happen, but that doesn't mean hope should leave me when it does.

Thank you for providing me this opportunity to wax poetic.

Look at me, being silly again. Oh well.