The Hope Of Winning
When I look up for the definition of the word HOPE, the dictionary lets me know that it is: longing; dream. This definition perhaps couldn’t do enough justice to the feeling generally associated with this word. So I looked up for the words synonymous to this. And this is how it goes..... “Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, wish” I am writing about a particular instance of this feeling: The Hope Of Winning . For the past many years I have filled up hundreds and thousands of raffle coupons in countless marts and mall outlets. My routine has always been this: collect the coupons; fill in the details; drop them in the box and preserve the counterparts; wait ...