You were here all along???!!!!

Sometimes when the world is a dark place and the mind is a perilous quagmire, hope can be found in the most unexpected of places...

There are those people whom you thought would be the last souls on earth you'd ever confide in but along comes a day when you not only talk to them but also find in them fantastic listeners...and of course they just might have something unusual to say that pops you right out of your misery.
There's that old book that you read so long back you have no idea what its about...in your sullen state of mind, you flip a few pages and it seems as though its just full of that uncanny wisdom that you need to get you through that moment.
Then comes the time when you just shut your eyes because you don't know what else to do...you've tried everything but your demons simply wont leave you alone. So you close your eyes and hope for oblivion when you suddenly discover those secret woods in a forgotten corner of your mind where everything is washed afresh in a clean light...after a while when you open your eyes, you feel so much lighter. The problem isn't solved but now you're ready to take it on now and be done with it.
There's so many other things...you travel half the world looking for "inner peace" and "hope"...you take expensive courses guaranteed to help you find these things...and for all you know you just might find your hope in a cheap ass fortune cookie that you got at some third-rate roadside Chinese takeout.
Hope is like that...it has this annoying habit of eluding you for an eternity and then just cropping up right under your nose...keep looking.