Hey.
So I was watching OWN -(which is Oprah's new network for those of you living under or in large rocks or trees) I kid I kid- and there was this documentary style show on called Lisa Ling's Our America or something of that nature. It was really amazing. She has a very open and generous heart that is apparent in her work, especially with people who go against the "norm" or are generally despised in some way. Anywho, every episode explores some facet of Our America- whatever that means. This one was about faith healers. I highly recommend that you watch it. There's a lot I could talk about after seeing that show, but it was one of her last comments in her narration that made my tummy feel funny so let's talk about that. She said that there is no real false hope. That's like an onomatopoeia of an oxymoron. But really, what if that's true? All hope is valid because hope is hope. False hope doesn't exist because it still has the same effects of real hope. So what's real and what's false? Maybe in trying to deny certain kinds of hope you're just putting your hope into a smaller and smaller box. Don't limit hope. Maybe don't define false and real? Maybe define it.
It just kind of made me feel strange thinking that there is no placebo effect for hope (or it's all a placebo effect for you glorious cynics out there). It's so black and white, you know? If you believe it, it's there. If you don't, it's not. I can't think of anything more black and whiter. Besides faith (hope and charity- not charity but it's too hard to refrain from saying when you throw the other two out there). That was a really great to, too, two example sentence.
I'm really tired.
Oh also, I feel really cool when my Pandora stations give me music by artists whose lyrics aren't even online. I am SO indie.
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