Hopelessly Optimistic Novels & Stories

He talks less, works more, spending more time in his study. “ oh you didn’t tell me about it earliar. Did you talk to him?” josh said with his husky voice… I didn’t hold in now. “ well I am not the only one to hide things isn’t it.” Hearing this, he was shocked. He definetly didn’t expect that with me. “ I didn’t hide it. I was gonna tell you. I was waiting for the right moment.” This made me extremely furious. “ there it is. The most used phse of the century. ‘Waiting for the right moment.’ When is the exactly right time? And how can other person decide that for anyone else.” I blabbed it out

Disillusioned individuals who genuinely believed the hogwash being taught to them by some obscure extremist. They can't possibly be right....It's not possible, is it?... ***

What if… I swear, those two words were more addictive than crack. I clung to them neurotically, imaging everything that could be while completely ignoring how it really was. It’s funny, but I think having too much hope actually made a person even more of a hopeless case. Because that’s what I was: absolutely hopeless.

He explained. “He’s just as hopeless as we are.”

Something like hope. Something dangerous.

Just optimization. My daughter was dead. Not physically. Worse. Mentally. Spiritually. Completely. The girl I loved was gone. Replaced by thing wearing her face. Using her voice. Living her life. But not her. Never her. Not anymore. Dr. Zhao opened the door. "You can go. All of you. We have what we need. Hope will serve us. The research will continue. The optimization will proceed. You have no power here. No leverage. No hope. So go. Run. Hide. Live what remains of your pathetic, unoptimized lives. While we build perfection. While we create paradise. While we win. Forever."

But certainty was a luxury I could not afford. So I held onto hope. Fragile. Desperate. Probably foolish. But mine. And that would have to be enough. For now.

Not weakness. Hope.

The good in me, not the bad. Adrian calmly took himself and said, "As you wish, Alpha, I really hope the thing you want will happen." And to be really not as we thought at the beginning and to be a good person who has nothing to do with this damned company, and you and she live in comfort and peace and your forgiveness for what happened. King Ayden took himself deeply and said: I really hope Adrian that what you say happens. Adrian said optimistically: Just optimism Alpha and everything will be fine and you will see.

Belief that something great was out there on the horizon waiting for him—and maybe it was. I wanted to bask in that feeling, to linger in his presence in the hope that some of his optimism and passion wore off on me. Because right now? My life was a total shit show.