Hope is defined as one of the most positive and constructive feelings that a human being can experience. Hope is that feeling that makes an individual build a situation of improvement or well-being towards the near or distant future. In other words, the person has total confidence that what they expect will happen or will happen. For such a feeling to be present, the person must have an optimistic attitude, turning then the hope in something better, something that on the contrary will be very difficult to feel in cases of depression, anguish or anxiety.
Unlike optimism, hope is a type of feeling that generally arises in certain and specific situations, while optimism is rather a constant attitude towards the way events unfold in one's life. Hope can appear and disappear according to circumstances, and while we consider ourselves hopeful about resolving a particular issue, we may not feel the same when circumstances change. Hope is then described as a state of mind and not as an attitude towards life, although both things (hope and optimism) can complement each other.
From a religious point of view, hope is not simply a state of mind, but it is also one of the three theological virtues posited by the Catholic religion that, together with faith and charity or love, have been given by God to the human being so that this is his reflection on Earth. Here, hope ceases to be a physical sensation of joy or satisfaction to become a grace that we must all recognize in our intimate hearts and put at the service of building a better tomorrow.
One of the most important Catholic theologians and philosophers in history, Saint Thomas Aquinas He has defined it as that virtue that predisposes and enables the trustworthy individual and then he will have full certainty that he will be able to achieve the eternal life that God has promised him.
It is also worth noting that these three theological virtues together with the cardinal virtues of the temperance, justice, fortitude and prudence they form a unity that ideally defines the Christian man.
In this sense, the other side of hope will be despair which will not only imply the absence of hope but also the feeling of anger and rage, that is, there is no hope and the state is accompanied by anger.
Hope can also be approached from an unreal or fantasy point of view. This happens when we are in the presence of people who develop a high level of false hope to manage their daily lives. These false hopes are often characterized by a lack of reality or by not being applicable in everyday life, which can easily lead the person to suffer all kinds of disappointments, surprises and disappointments. There are also individuals who unleash in others, by their actions and behaviors, false hopes that of course when they discover themselves will plunge the person who placed their trust in them into a state of disappointment.
Meanwhile, we can find the concept of hope integrating another important concept of our language and that presents a widespread use, such is the case of Life expectancy.
This will be called the average number of years a total population lives during a certain period of time. It should be noted that a distinction is made by gender, that is, the sexes, female and male, are measured separately, to of course obtain specific information based on the number of years each sex lives.
Life expectancy will also be influenced by factors such as hygiene to be practiced, quality of health care, wars, among others.
The measurement carried out in 2010 showed that life expectancy is between 69 and 64 years, although, it usually varies substantially depending on the place on the planet that is observed, because for example in North America and Europe is almost 73 years old and on the African continent it is nothing more than 55 years.
And Esperanza is also a proper noun corresponding to the feminine gender. It has a Latin origin and precisely means the wish for a better future to come.
