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The hopeful are betting the house on a future no one can see yet.
means Feeling or showing optimism that something good is likely to happen, or naming a person who aspires to a particular role or success.
from Straightforwardly built: "hope" plus the suffix "-ful" ("full of"). "Hope" comes from Old English "hopa," with relatives across the Germanic languages — Dutch "hoop," German "Hoffnung" — though the deeper roots of the word are genuinely murky, which is fitting for a feeling aimed at the unknown. The noun sense, as in "a young hopeful," emerged later, turning the adjective into a label for anyone reaching for a brighter outcome.
- brain chemistry
- Optimism lights up the brain's reward circuits
- longer life
- Hopeful people live measurably longer on average
- word roots
- From Old English hopian, to leap forward
- placebo power
- Expectation alone triggers real physical healing
- oddly contagious
- Hope spreads through groups like emotional wildfire
apollo 13 — astronauts survived 1970 explosion 200,000 miles from earth with oxygen depleted
malala yousafzai — shot by taliban in 2012 at age 15, continued fighting for education and won nobel peace prize
nelson mandela — imprisoned 27 years in apartheid south africa, emerged to lead reconciliation in 1994