He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box. K.J. Parker
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Hope is an emotion that is often looked down upon, but it is the one thing that can save us all. Hope is like the box (box of evils) with the bad things (evils). Hope opens the box to let the bad things out, but then Hope stays behind with the evil ones. Hope can be seen as a bad thing too.

When we open the box of evil, it also opens a box of hope for us. Without hope, we would never see day after day, living life in misery and pain.

Source: Sharps

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