Hope and fears VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 04/11/2010

Hope and fears

VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 04/11/2010 As hope means trust, confidence and optimism, fear on the other hand brings about dread, foreboding and anxiety. Needless to say, ordinarily, people have only one or the other psychological bearing and pursuant emotional toward one or the same reality. In other words, usually someone simply either pins his hope or draws his fear toward something. There are however certain markedly ambivalent situations where many harbor both their hopes and fears about the same reality. And such is exactly what the forthcoming May 10 national elections do to a good number of ordinary Filipinos. In other words, the progressively nearing political exercise provides precisely the reality for people in general, ample and valid reasons to entertain hopes and fears, to be optimistic and pessimistic about it.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100411com7.html

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