We often hear a lot about hope. I hope to be happy in life. But one is foolish to believe that anything fruitful comes to exist without effort. What I hope for must thus be turned into reality. We can do this through prayer, meditation and, the one I find to be the most practical – through action. Hope without action is neutered, naïve, dreaming. It lacks the efficacy of the possible, the perhaps, the what if I could change the world – my world. But, specifically, what is the nexus of this desire, this yearning that I hear and read so much about? It is, “au fond,” at its core, the belief that my life could get better and improve.