Critical thinking is required for the parsing of all things global, inquiring about the taken-for-granted and providing good community-research-based knowledge. It helps us to think of problems, evaluate arguments and predict challenges. Still, without hope critical thinking can be cynical a pessimism that translates barriers into unbridgeable gullies and realizes the least of people, the worst in scenarios. Inaction due to cynicism leads directly to despair and resistance to the message of healthy change.
Oppositely, hope is something that can keep us
chugging along with purpose to keep fighting for the better things in life.
This is what helps us see a brighter tomorrow and the fact of solutions. But if
we are to operate with critical thinking, hope can be naïveté — a blissfully
ignorant optimism which refuses to see the threats that realign caution
out of context and results in unreal expectations. Reality distortion normally
leads to crushed expectations when your ideals do not materialize, and naiveté
stays alive for only so long.
We require both: critical thinking to tether
us to reality and hope is what inspires us towards a better tomorrow for real progress
It is the combination that enables recognition
of difficulties where we do not surrender and where we recognize challenges but
refuse to be defeated by them. It is this equilibrium which propels
innovation, societal progress, and personal development, an equilibrium between
wisdom and optimism that enables us to live our lives.
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