What gives me hope?

A history that tells me that no matter how bad a thing or time is, it does eventually shift. A year from now, it will not have the same power. If I can even remember it. Also, realizing that I have the power to make choices and to take one small step in a right, supportive direction. The ability to move out of the pain or emotion that is threatening to become a state. Finding signposts, and not letting emotional reactions be drivers, by realizing the value you hold dear beneath the problem, then acting out of that value. Having taken that step, I find hope to take more. For e.g. I feel sad… acknowledge that feeling. Why am I sad? Because I care… a signpost. I care, and to care is good. What is one real step I can take to exhibit that I care? Then take it.