DB'ing is sooooo hard (part 2)

[kolja]

Rick- it's sublte. To me, hope is optomism (which is good, even when it's guarded optomism - which for us, I think it has to be). Expectation to me is best perhaps thought of as UNguarded optomism, and something used as a crutch. You LEAN on what you're expecting to happen and attach part of your emotional well being to it - which means it's that much harder if what you're expecting doesn't happen.

I HOPE in something I'd LIKE to have happen but if it doesn't come to pass, it doesn't take me with it. An unrealized expectation is much hader to take.

Or, maybe I'm just blabbering