There are people right now, just living on hope. Just having the belief that it will be ok, can give you strength and the will to continue. I know at times, especially as a borderline, we feel hopeless. We feel defeated before we can even begin. Could it be that the battle has already been won or lost in our head? I mean people that believe they can succeed, usually do, and those that believe they will fail, are also right. There is so much power in believing in something, having hope. I read about an experiment that really demonstrated just how powerful hope was, and I'll share it.

There was an experiment that was done on a rat. In the experiment, they put a rat, in a bowl of water in order to find out how long the rat could tread water before he started to drown. The first time the rat made it 15 minutes before it started to give up and start to drown. The researchers took the rat out of the water, dried him off and let it rest. They wanted to do it a second time, to compare with the first time. They put the rat back into the same bowl of water, to see how long it would last the second time. You will not believe the results!

The rat, when put in the bowl of water the second time, was able to tread water without drowning, for 60 hours! The researchers were not expecting the rat to swim that long, so they got together to discuss the results, and the reason for those results. The only conclusion the researchers could come to, as to why it lasted that long the second time, was the rat had hope. Hope keeps you going, when you'd otherwise quit. Hope helps you to last through situations that you considered hopeless before.

You have got to have hope, hope you will be happy, hope you have a great relationship, hope you'll get that job, hope you'll get your kids back and hope your mental health improves. There will be a time, when you just want to give up. In those times, we've got to keep in mind that our struggles today, become our strengths tomorrow. If you can only find a little hope, that hope will give you strength to pull through the difficult situations you never thought you could.