Story of Hope

Barry Bharathan

4 min readNov 30, 2023

Story of Hope

Hope was sleeping blissfully. It suddenly awakened to a loud beat.

It took a moment to realize that it was a frenzied, panicky Heartbeat.

It gently touched the Heart and said, ‘Slowdown Please.’

Heart cried, I am unable to, as ‘Mind’ frightens me too much with dark thoughts of doubts damnation, despair in helplessness.

Hope Hugged Heart and said, Imagine you are Dead.
But I am not, cried the Heart
Hope said, I am aware and I just want you to imagine.
Slowly, the Heart began to slow down its beats and soon it almost stopped.

‘Brain’ was alarmed, because of poor blood circulation. Blood cells were in chaotic disarray, limbs started becoming limp. ‘Mind’ experiencing numbness, became desperate as it was unable to think!

It called out to Hope.
Hope shushed the ‘Mind;’ What do you think now.
Mind said, I do not know why the Heart is afraid.

I, as your ‘Hope;’ have often reminded you, the sanctity of both of us nurturing, nourishing our beloved ‘Brain.’

Hope continued; Dear ‘Mind’ you need to be aware of our spoilt children “Ego” and Anger. You know that they neither care, nor respect me. You, who have greater influence and control constantly indulge them.

The ‘Mind’ grew red and became defensive in its reaction and yelled at ‘Hope’- Who are you to tell me what is wrong with me- You are living in your own make-believe dream World. You have no idea how ‘ego’ makes me feel powerful and ‘anger’ makes me proud!

Hope laughed, and said I am sorry to have made you lose your cool. I am hopeful that someday, sooner than later, you will understand what I am saying!

‘Hope’ whispered to the ‘Mind;’ I hope you are aware that ‘Brain’ is our mother. Through us, it spawns Ego & Anger. These disturb the ‘Brain’ which in turn upsets the Heart. Hence Brain and Heart affect our breathing which is our lifeline.

Life begins with our first breath and death is our Last breath.

Our breath, senses, and emotions; our feelings, actions and behaviour are manifestations from ‘Hope,’ ‘Heart’ and ‘Mind.’

Sure enough, the ‘Mind’ started running amok. Its thoughts became ego centric and angry with no reason. It did not realize the adversity it caused the ‘Heart’ who just could not cope. Its beats became erratic and in turn the Blood Pressure caused hypertension. The body became numb feeling hot and cold. It felt dizzy and collapsed and hurt itself.

The doctor came. He sedated the body and prescribed antibiotics to contain hypertension and restlessness.

There were adverse side effects of allergic reactions.

“Hope” had to act to save the day. It was aware that it had the power of ‘Higher consciousness to nourish the Heart; Prayer to awaken the brain and Empathy to encourage the neurons to become energetic.

While this was happening, ‘Ego’ confessed to the mind that it had realized the need to calm ‘Anger.’

It was not a fairy tale. The ‘Heart’ recovered itself, the Brain awakened to the reality that it is the Motherboard. It knew that Hope would be able to reason with the ‘Mind’ to calm ‘Anger’ and tame ‘Ego.’

Hope’ knew that it was more than a story.