Dear Friends,
I wonder who invented the word, Hope. Don’t all our lives revolve around the world of Hope? Do we realize how many times we mention the word Hope every day while we speak and write?
Can you imagine a mind that’s bereft of hope? At the age of 17 when I lost my father, I was shocked and I didn’t know what to do. I was quite concerned about my future, worried about the uncertainties of my life. But see what happened. It was Hope that saw me through and brought me this far.
Don’t you think that when hope dies the reasons to sustain our lives also die? People who have committed suicide are people who lost their hope. The concept of Hope is something that is freely available for everyone and when this sense of hope embraces us, nothing is insurmountable.
Keeping this simple theory of Hope, many have started their journey and continue their journey, including me, hoping I will be, I will get, I will see and so on. I am a businessman and I have a family and me to have my social commitments. I too have hope. I have hope about my business and its growth. I have hope for my family. I have hope about my social presence and so on. At the same time, hope is not going to take you anywhere if you don’t put your foot forward and make an effort to make things happen. You accomplish hope only when you make things happen and the feeling of that accomplishment is sometimes difficult to explain.
The end result of Hope is not definable. At the same time, hope cannot be attached to things and pleasures alone. Has anyone thought or said, I hope I become a better person, I hope I become useful to others, I hope I will end up in life as a winner or I hope I will be remembered after I am gone, I hope the next generation will do what I did.
Friends, this is the simple theory of life and this is no science. This is what we all live on every day: Hope.
People who believe in hope get an intuition which I believe is from our Creator. This little intuition is like a wire that connects and drives you to do things because just hope without an accompanying effort makes no sense.
Of late, I have started writing about the new moves I’ve been making, traveling to countries that I have not visited so far. In the past three months, I have traveled to Mexico, the Dominican Republic and soon I will be visiting Peru and Colombia. Friends, do you know why I am going to these places? It is because a sense of Hope draws me to these nations. To me, it is nothing but economics. I am a businessman and I am looking for and hoping for newer opportunities, newer pastures, and newer avenues. If I did not have Hope in my life, I would probably have been a laid back person doing nothing because fortunately I have worked hard and made enough wealth to support my economic desires. Now what? Why am I doing this? My faith in Hope leads me to further my ambitions while being a bit cautious as well !!.
According to me India, the country I live in which is perceived to be on a major growth path to the whole world, is passing through some economic challenges. The parameters do not seem right. The economic data is on a downward trend, high-interest rates, political instability, no decision making, inconsistent policies, trade imbalance, heavy dependence on imports, and the likes gives me the feeling that I should look for alternate markets and this is the reason why I have put my foot forward with the hope that I can open up new avenues.
In my next blog, I will write more about my experiences in the Dominican Republic and the countries that I will be visiting in the next couple of weeks. I travel to the U.S. next week, again, with the hope that I will achieve something new.
Friends, can you imagine if you and I did not have hope? Where would we be? Let’s all, as the saying goes, hope for the best and be prepared for the worst.
As I conclude this blog I hope all my readers will have a prayerful Holy Week and a Blessed Easter.