Yahoo are asking for contributions to a time capsule they are putting together.
…the Yahoo! Time Capsule sets out to collect a portrait of the world – a single global image composed of millions of individual contributions. This time capsule is defined not by the few items a curator decides to include, but by the items submitted by every human on earth who wishes to participate. We hope to reach a truly global expression of life on earth – nuanced, diverse, beautiful and ugly, thrilling and terrifying, touching and rude, serious and absurd, frank, honest, human.They are asking for submissions in several themes themes, Love, Anger, Fun, Sorrow, Faith, Beauty, Past, Now, Hope, You. They are also asking for media in a variety of formats, text audio video and of course photography which according to the flickr blog entry where I found this, is leading the pack in terms of numbers.
I had two goes at uploading something, didn't work so at least I can say I gave it a try.
This is the image I tried to up load.
I chose Faith as the category that I wanted to contribute to. [I originally wanted to choose hope but the artist's idea or maybe Yahoo's idea of what that meant isn't quite how I define hope, perhaps more on that later.]
My description.A tree against a wall, co-existing, struggling; yet surviving. I believe in humanity's ability to adapt and to survive to co-exist, I believe that what we make is beautiful—most of the time—and how that, what we make, interacts with it's environment defines us.
Let me ask both of my readers this question then –
How do you define the word hope?
Ah yes barb indeed, far better than the definition of hope on the time capsule site which went something like, "hope: what do yo wish for" which to me seems shallow and far to easy a question
since you asked...
I think hope is an optimistic outlook on life and the future. a happy person doesn't worry too much about hopes being unfullfilled he/she will be hopeful about a fresh scenario and use it as a motivation or starting point.
unhappy people hope for unreasonable things or things they will sabotage themselves and then find their sarcastic view on the world has come true once again.