Some thinkers and writers have differentiated between expectation and hope. For example, the poet Armando Rojas Guardia writes in his poem "Espera":Very accurate and necessary (as well as very well written) your reflections, @nancybriti. They become very pertinent to the indescribable reality that we Venezuelans live, as you show crudely in your post. Waiting has several faces: it is the action (or inaction) to which various undesirable circumstances subject you; it is the strategy of submission of a regime that manipulates even the pain and patience (or impatience) of the citizens; or the resignation of many, with a diffuse horizon that gets further and further away.
Elevation springs from waiting.
I don't mean hope,
which may be a lower degree of consciousness,
a vulgar optimism, a misery
of the frivolity of the soul and its fear.
Thank you for your good post, @nancybriti. Greetings.
Waiting is fundamental to the creative act. It is part of a process that ends with the work. The fruit of waiting is precisely the work, the light. But there are sterile waits that lead to nothing, like this long wait in which our country finds itself! Greetings, @josemalavem