Pow! Biff! Bam!

Pow!!!

Biff!!!

Bam!!!

Those were the only things missing from the new Batman: Arkham Asylum game for the PS3. I’ve played the game and let me tell you, it’s fantastic. I’d even go as far as to say it should be Game of the year.

The story line, the artwork, the character play, the legion of foes you face through the game along with the little things that true comic aficionado’s would appreciate make for a most stunning game.

For those of you out there with a PS3 and enough cash just for one game this year, I highly recommend picking this one up.

This post by the way is not about Batman. I just couldn’t figure out a way to lead into this post and figured that Batman: Arkham Asylum was as good as any way to start.

This post is about “Hope”.

One of my ardent readers and closest friends asked me to write about “Hope” after my last post. Apparently, even he found the discussion of “Heaven and Hell” morbid and wanted me to write on happier subjects aka non death related subjects.

You never get to old for Hope in my opinion.

You could be sixty plus, unemployed and living off your friends.

You could suddenly realise you are in love with someone who may be your soulmate, but lives thousands of miles away and has no clue about how you feel.

You could be a 33 year old, starting school from scratch and wondering if you’ll get the paperwork to have your loan approved.

You could be in a relationship that nobody should know about, because you aren’t sure how to define it yourself and if it ends badly, it’ll hurt

Or You could have no clue what you want to focus on in your life, and have everybody around you offering advice that they feel you are rejecting.

By the way this is the point where Sanka would say something like “Hope is for the weak! You don’t need Hope! What you need is to go out there and make things happen” and then he’ll quote a famous historical or contemporary person. Yes, my friends are all that predictable.

Interestingly, I almost agree with him. Almost…

You do have to go out there and make things happen. However, you should never underestimate the importanace of Hope.

Do you know why most men go out to clubs, bars or parties even if they know that there will be only one single HCHHSSTT present? It’s not because of the beer.

Or how about the fact that everytime you plan a road trip, you insist that the ratio of men to women be reasonable? Weight distribution in the car has nothing to do it.

It’s because every man wants Hope. Nay, we need the Hope!

At the back of your mind you know you’ll probably end up home alone at the end of the night all lonely,drunk and horny. Chances are most of your friends will end up the same way. i.e. lonely,drunk and horny.

It’s the Hope that keeps you coming back.

Men go out with the hope that something might happen and for once they won’t end up home lonely, drunk and horny (Yes, we think about sex that often and it influences our choices a lot).

The reality is that absolutely nothing will happen. If you went out 5 nights in a row, the chances of something happening on one of the nights is minuscule (Disclaimer: Hugh Jackman does not count. He ruined the curve for us all!).  It’s the hope that makes us all go back for more.

The point is all of us, no matter who we are, need that Hope.

Like I said it doesn’t matter if you are over sixty years old, unemployed and living off your friends. You try to get your life going again even at that age because you are a survivor, a fighter and hope that this time something good will happen.

It doesn’t matter if you realise you are in love with someone who could be your soulmate but lives thousands of miles away and doesn’t even know how you feel. You will continue to hold on to that feeling because the hope is that your soulmate will figure it out and make your “dreams” come true.

It doesn’t matter if you’re  a 33 year old, starting school from scratch and haven’t gotten the paperwork to clear your loan. You’ll keep badgering whomever you have to because you just want to get back to living your life again.

It doesn’t matter that you are in a relationship that nobody should know about, because you aren’t sure how to define it yourself and if it ends badly, it’ll hurt. You keep hoping that it’ll work out because it could lead to something bigger and better than you ever imagined.

It doesn’t matter that you have no clue what you want to focus on in your life, and that everybody insists on giving you advice that they feel you’re rejecting. You’ll keep trying different things in the hope that you get where you want to.

Not all of it works out. You should just hope that some of it does.

Tagged as: HCHHSSTT, Hope