Use logic and don't be hopeful (not always) PART 2

Here lies my original post

This is in response to my previous post. I claimed that hope, dreams and faith are almost useless since there can always be a physical action you can do to work towards a real goal rather than hoping for a dream to come true.

This is completely true and I hold my ground when I say that "hoping, wishing and praying" do nothing but I have pondered upon this subject even more since than and arrived at a new answer.

Although you can do things to work towards a goal, it can get extreme. For example: Let's say you have a goal to buy a $100 shirt because you love it so much but you only have $20. You earn $20 a week but you don't want to wait. You could just wait and then buy the shirt but you could always sell some of your old items online or in a yard sale or offer people to house sit or baby sit to earn more money faster.

But the extreme route would be to do things outside your comfort zone or with the use of effort that outweighs the benefit of getting the shirt. For example, if your morals state you are against prostitution and you sleep with someone for the shirt, that is probably extreme in your books. If you desperately spend hours and days looking for a second job ONLY for the shirt, that may also be extreme.

Even though you could do these things, they become illogical when they become extreme because the costs outweigh the benefits.

My original blog post title was "Use logic and don't be hopeful". Well by using logic you could determine when the costs outweigh the benefits and once they do it becomes illogical. I think this is when things like dreaming and hoping are useful.

But let's say you are fighting for your life the costs are probably not ever going to outweigh the benefits so it would be useless to dream, hope or wish.

This is just something that stupidly didn't come across my mind when I wrote the original post.

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Use logic and don't be hopeful (not always)

I have no hope, dreams or faith.

I am not depressed, boring or pessimistic.

I have logic, goals and plans.

I am not happy, exciting or optimistic.

I am not average.

I am realistic.

Being realistic means having no hopes, dreams or faith. It means making what would be a dream, a goal with steps, action and achievement.

Hopes versus goals is what makes the successful person different from the optimistic. 

I am an atheist, therefore I don't pray. But I ask, even the most foolish of theist to consider instead of praying, or I'm addition to praying, to take real actions.

You must do things to get things.

Praying, hoping and wishing does nothing.

The only reason one should wish is in hopes of achieving something highly unlikely, like getting Justin Bieber to take you to prom. Although you could take actual steps to get that to happen as well. 

During my run I was thinking about "When an acceptable time to be hopeful is". I was thinking maybe when you can't do much, or you have run out of steps you can take. For example, in the hospital with cancer. Maybe it would help to be somewhat optimistic at the end of the strings of your life.

I was also thinking about maybe when you are going for a job. You pick out a good outfit, give your best interview and prepare a lot. After the interview is over all you can do is wait. Should you hope you get the job? Maybe. But would it be better to be optimistic about the job and not get the job, or to not be optimistic and to not get the job?

I just think if you use logic by thinking it is possible you don't get the job, to prepare for the worst outcome. I mean you don't look outside and see little drops rain and then think "Nope, I don't need this umbrella" when the weather could turn extremely bad. Or at least you shouldn't.

Answers should follow along with the individual's logic. It just makes sense not to be optimistic over a result that could be negative.

Maybe having hope at certain points in life is okay, but not all of the time. You can't just sit around and wait for something to happen, you have to get up and take steps, create goals and make it happen.

Dreams are the goals of the weak man.

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