The Two Whos

Cece sent Yun an email with the same old SEO attitude: “Please go do something about this stuff I dug out from cyberspace!”   This time, it is about the popular topics people search.  Not sure what Cece’s searching algorithm is, but the top one that came back is: “The end of hope.”

Cece thinks of the Academy Award nominated actress Sandra Bullock in her movie “Hope Floats” and wonders if Cece and Yun will ever end the hope for true love!  Off course not.  But is this the end of hope that the searches are worrying about!

The TwoWhos  blog is full of hope for change.   The Gift of Beauty is solely hope based: we hope to see beauty in everyday life!  Our SEO venture is impossible to understand, but we are hopeful one day  we will master it.  The single mother’s dance is all about hope:   hope  in the mist of a challenging situation.  The list can go on and on….

What is the end of  hope?

For optimistic Yun,  hope is a mindset, not an objective state like the state of 0  or 1 in the digital world.  The beauty of our  mindset is that a mindset can be changed whenever we want to.   Empowerment means  that we get to choose which mindset we want to adopt that serves our livelihood  better.  It is never engraved on a stone.  So, the end of hope is absurd, it is like saying the end of human thinking….

…or Cece says the end of human being. ….. Cece knows of someone who recently committed suicide.  Certainly THIS is the end of hope. There is no return from this, no change in mindset.  It is final. When the woman worries that her abuser will get out of jail and kill her, certainly there is a hope that the  police will let her know when he gets out of jail..but is that a realistic hope?   There will be no worries about grey hair here …just the finality of  the choice making.   Sometimes there is no hope.  No hope that the abuser will change.  No hope that the child rapist will not re-offend living  in the community across from a school…no hope in recovery.  No hope in change.  It is very difficult to change the mind set…and this only happens if the person works hard to do so and gets lots of help and support in doing so.  More often that not, certain hope is not restored.

 Cece is a realist, Yun an optimist…both are  different types of thinkers. Different perspectives are very important in life to provide clarity and possibilities.   The end of hope can really be hitting the stone wall, or just encountering a raining day.   By listening to different points of view, we might have hope of change even in the darkest of moments…

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos