DREAD vs HOPE

Dread - it comes unannounced and then comsumes our feelings with it's irrational sense of doom. Have you ever had that feeling of dread? I'm not talking about fear...fear is immediate, fear is what kicks in when you're confronted with danger; a mugger with a gun, a stranger in your house... I'm talking about dread. Dread is persistent... it gnaws at you. You can't ignore it. It just won't go away. Because that's what dread is. It's worrying about something you can't do anything about.

Dread can affect your job, your home, alter your entire personality.

Hope, like dread, it often comes unannounced, and then thankfully intoxicates us and innoculates our feelings with an irrational sense of joy and optimism.

Hope is the high. Dread is the low.

I guess life is the stuff in between...