Hope
By ScribbleScribe
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She sat at the desk in the office in front of a monitor. On the screen was a cursor that blinked back at her. Blink. Blink. Blink.
An awkward silence.
Off to her side sat a woman with a concerned look on her face.
She had just implied something which had had the unexpected effect of making her psychologist cry. The girl felt ashamed, and wanted to walk out of the office to avoid her psychologist's tears. Evidently her psychologist did care about her. She wondered why; wasnt she supposed to be a medical professional? Detached from her feelings, all advice and reaction handed out and shown with as much emotion as a pill prescription?
Wiping away her tears the psychologist asked her patient if she had anything to look foward to. Her patient couldnt think of anything.
...Months later...
The same girl is in her bathroom, brushing her teeth, getting ready for the day. As she passes the bristles over her gums she contemplates the series of Green Lantern comics she has just finished. In particular she was contemplating the last issue which introduced the Blue Lantern Corps; who represent Hope.
Hope....she mused on this word. What did it mean?
When the hero of the Green Lantern Series met the Blue Lantern; his energy ring was almost depleted. He needed that energy ring; it was how he fought the forces of darkness; it was where he drew his strength. And, with the approach of the blue lantern his power ring was recharged to 210%.
A battle is fortold to be coming in the Green Lantern Series called The Blackest Night; where everything ceases to exist.
....The Blackest Night... a symbol of Death. An absence of anything. The girl knew how the Blackest Night felt. It was an inuendo of wanting to embrace this which had made her psychologist cry some months ago.
"Hope gives strength." she continued to muse. This is what she took from the meeting of the Green Lantern of Willpower and the Blue Lantern of Hope.
And her mind echoed on...."The Blackest Night.... Night By: Elie Wiesel, The Diary of Anne Frank, the perils within Dean Koontz novels, Emily Dickenson,
Hope brings life.
When Elie Wiesel was surrounded by death; he noted that the one thing that kept people alive was hope. When people would lose hope they would get a glazed look in the eye and were destined soon to die.
Anne Frank was said to hold fiercely onto hope when she was thrown into the concentration camps. She became a beacon of life because she insisted on holding onto it.
The characters within Dean Koontz novels are always faced with their deepest fears, and are left with the choice of either; despairing and facing ruin, or holding onto hope and overcoming the horrors confronting them. The characters that hold onto hope; hold onto life.
And as for Emily Dickenson... a verse of hers kept reverberating within the girls head.
...Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,.....
...Within Hope is Life...
And with this conclusion...She spat out a mix of saliva and toothpaste and rinsed her teeth off with a cup of water. She was ready for a new day.
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