HOLDING OUT HOPE Everyone always tells you to just keep believing. Hold out hope and be strong. Well in the face of what you're going through that isn't always that easy. I've looked up the meaning of hope. " a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen"; These past couple of weeks for me has been hard. I've gone through a few things and I've realized there is only one person always there, me. It's hard to hope for something when you can't see the end picture. When you don't know how the story will end. How do you keep that expectation alive in the face of the circumstances around you. When you can't see a way out or a way through. You want to trust and believe but it's hard when it seems impossible. How do you trust through the pain of past experiences? I've read recently that pain is real but so is hope. Hope is being optimistic of what is to come. Or what you hope is to come i