Hope Must Be a Healing Technique...

This story starts thinking on people from Tucson, Arizona...Regardless of all the political implications, the tears dropped and the lives lost, there's one word that comes to my mind: Hope
Why is it that hope comes to our mind whenever something bad happens? Why is hope the medicine to our pains and frustrations? Why to hope and not to act?
It must be really confusing for me. Half of a lie isn't the true...is it? Why to hope for promises and nice words if we done bad to other people?
Hope, is a powerful word...that's for sure. I can't deny the impact and power this little word has in me.  Just like everybody else, I started many sentences by saying "I hope..." and I said it with so much fervor sometimes that I truly hoped for those to be true. Hope wasn't made only for healing pains, was also made to cause pains. We, rational mammals, have this particularity of hoping/wishing bad and good in enormous amounts and mostly bad.
Misused sometimes, abused some others, Hope , is always there.
But for me what is hope? I wish I could know. I recently saw on TV (randomly) a documentary type of thing about the flight 1549 from US Airways. Despite of the pilot's ability to have wonderful maneuvers and land the plane in the safest area possible in a metropolitan surroundings, there was hope. Hope of many passengers. Hope for us, the rest of civilians...To hear the revived comments of many travelers and their experiences at the moment prior "landing" was breath taking. Yet again, Hope only appeared in a moment of desperation, in a bad circumstance.
I realized that to hope is an immediate medicine to heal open cuts and bad scars. I haven't answered myself about what hope is...and why I have hopes.
I think hope is my way to be optimistic, to wish for a tomorrow based on the actions I decide to take today. I've seen many injustice in this world and I can only rely on the hope for a better place for all of us. But, then again I have this question...Why to hope and not to act?
I know I cannot act in all the senses I would hope to do, but I know I can be active in several actions that will turn my nicely decorated "hope" onto reality. Wouldn't be better to be present and factual than to yearn for reality?
This probably might go out of context, but I always hoped to help impoverished countries. I've been given the opportunity to have a privileged life. Not many can have what I do, and so much people have a whole lot more than me. I rather see the glass half full instead of half empty. So, if I have more than enough for me, why not to hope for the rest to have at least as much as I do. What's the kind of society we live in that using junglely techniques says who's strong and who's not? Who's powerful and who's weak?
That's my motto to further my education. I have the privilege of receiving good education and I should act to be the hope for those who don't

I can be the hope of much people, true. But tonight I want to be the hope of myself. I want to act in order to save my hopes and convince my persona that I can always hope and dream (with fears or conviction) but that I can also act and make my wishes and desires to be a reality.


(Did I say that word too many times already? I hope not...)