Hope

After living through 16 1/2 years of life, I have learnt not to hope. Pessimists will say,"What?! Only after 16 years?!", and optimists will say,"Just after 16 years??" I've always thought myself to be an optimist but i guess i'm wrong. People say that hope keeps your dreams alive; it also makes you feel alive. But what if reality is completely different from what you had hoped? It will only make you wish more fervently that you were dead. Yes, that's the cruelty of life. Hope gives you life but at the same time, it also takes away lives...