The Futures

In social science, hope is not simply the belief that one’s circumstances will get better; for that, we use the term optimism. Hope is the belief that an individual can make things better.

All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come;

revering the future;

without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the exp... See more