hope hike.

sometimes all you get is a glimpse of hope as you ride by on the bus of life, and that can sustain you for a while.

but sometimes you just gotta get out from behind those glass and metal cages, and take a trek.

take a hope hike.

even if it's drizzling or pouring rain. hope is worth it.

sometimes to get a good shot at hope, you have to risk being splashed with the dirty rainwater of life.

sometimes when you can't find your own hope, you can try to follow in the footsteps of someone who has held hope inside them and somehow managed to shine it out into the world. if you seek out those bits of hope-light, you will find them.

i noticed on my hike that hope isn't usually found around the walls of fancy, rich, established businesses or banks. those places have already chosen their path, their goal, their reward. hope knows it's not welcome there.

i also noticed that hope doesn't usually share space with expressions of hate or territorialism, either. there are exceptions to this, though...hope is sneaky and defiant sometimes...

although, sometimes hope is so faded or so tiny that it's easy to miss.

and then sometimes hope stands on the street corner, in the busiest traffic circles of the biggest cities, and stares out, inviting anyone who will look and listen to soak up its encouragement...but too often just gets ignored.

hope can go even where it's not allowed, when someone dares to bring it there...

(photos taken on the route of trolleybuses 19/21/22/29 between škola vojislava ilića, crveni krst, trg slavija, terazije, and trg republike)