The island of lost hopes poster

Hope was personified in Greek mythology as Elpis. When Pandora opened Pandora's box, she let out all the evils except one: hope. Apparently, the Greeks considered hope to be as dangerous as all the world's evils. It was a great relief when Pandora revisited her box and let out hope as well. It may be worthy to note that in the story, hope is represented as weakly leaving the box but is in effect far more potent than any of the major evils. From psychological viewpoint, hope is closely related to informed decision-making and can be considered its critical factor, such as risk dependent danger. In real life, human decisions depend on the evaluation of one’s danger perception and the hope indicator. In addition, there is some evidence to suggest that in difficult situations, hope may be much worse than hopelessness. Exempli gratia, people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole adjust better to their situation than prisoners who hold on to the possibility of parole. The point I’m trying to make is that loosing hope at times might be one of the best things that happen to you. Personally, I’m a strong believer to the “never give up” approach, but could I be wrong. Perhaps, one has to let it go… once in a while.