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Opinion: When hope is a beautifully wrapped torment

When hope is a beautifully wrapped torment
When hope is a beautifully wrapped torment (Photo: iStock)

Hope is the cruellest thing in the world. Death is better. When you are dead, the pain stops. But hope keeps raising your way high, only to drop you to the hard ground. Hope cradles your heart in its hand and then it crashes you with a fist. Over and over. It never stops. That's what hope does."

The very quote above is the very reason I do not read motivational books because clever quotes are what you are likely to come across, unprovoked, except they provoke you and you immediately start looking at life like this big bad beast that you need to protect yourself from.

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