myth.

myth
· n.
1 a traditional story concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
2 a widely held but false belief. Ø a fictitious person or thing. Ø an exaggerated or idealized conception of a person or thing.
– DERIVATIVES mythic adj. mythical adj. mythically adv.
– ORIGIN C19 (earlier (C17) as mythic): from mod. L. mythus, via late L. from Gk muthos.

myths as we know are just stories. stories that we hoped would happen. we hoped there would be unicorns. we hoped there would be a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. we hoped that there would be flying and talking dragons like the sean connery voice-alike dragon in Dragonheart. we hoped there would be care bears. spiderman. the x-men. smurfs. characters from enid blyton's books. and so on. but as we know they're all myths. fictional characters. fictional stories.

but myths won't be myths without hoping. we hope for world peace. we hope for bush not to wear an iPod inside his suit. we hope for everything to go smoothly. we hope for perfection. we hope for money to rain form the sky. we hope for so many things. but did they ever go as we want them to be or as we hoped ? these are myths. it will continue to be myths.

point is, hope is just a mythical word.

hope
· n.
1 a feeling of expectation and desire. Ø a person or thing that gives cause for hope. Ø grounds for hoping.
2 archaic a feeling of trust.
3 a mythical word.
· v. expect and desire. Ø intend if possible to do something.
– PHRASES hope against hope cling to a mere possibility. not a (or some) hope informal no chance at all.
– DERIVATIVES hoper n.
– ORIGIN OE hopa (n.), hopian (v.), of Gmc origin.

Bush with an iPod. A sign of hope?