My family keeps making plans for 'when things get better' but we never talk about what if they don't, and I'm starting to feel like our hope has become a way of avoiding dealing with what's actually happening right now.
More people experience this than they realize.
Hope has become a shared defense against uncertainty rather than a grounded orientation toward possibility.
“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.