What keeps us going everyday?

If you're a realist, its pretty easy to see that the world today is more full of bad than good, evil than pride, failure than success, pessimism than optimism. So I guess the real question is what motivates us to wake up every day and keep at it, again and again? In the face of adversity, tribulations, stress, anger, sorrow, grief and every other negative connotation out there, why are we so driven? The answer is nothing tangible, because tangible things have a price, and what we run off of doesn't. The answer is faith, hope, and a dream. For so many of us life has thrown enough curveballs to last 100 lifetimes. Life isn't easy, but there are times when all of it culminates in something great. Why do we get up everyday and go to class and spend hours studying(or trying to study lol) and worry about stress about careers, tests, family, friends, relationships, GPAs, health and fitness, and everything else? For simplicity's sake, it boils down to faith and hope and a dream that tomorrow will be a better day and bring something great. We study for hours and hours and stress over tests in the hope that we will end up doing something in life we absolutely love(and be successful doing it). We do it because we want to make a difference in the world we live in, no matter what that may be. We have faith that all of our efforts will reward us in ways that don't have a tangible meaning, but an intangible one. We have hope that someday, just someday, things will just be great. For some of us this happens, for some it doesn't. With this in mind, why try at all? Because no matter how big the odds are stacked against you, no matter the adversity, no matter how many people tell you it cant be done, no matter how impossible it seems, there is always hope. Hope springs from eternal faith, but faith in what? A higher being, a dream, a goal, a friend; but nevertheless a faith in something. If there wasn't any faith, there would be no hope. We all believe in something. We all believe that things are worth fighting for. So we continue down life's path with purpose because what we want is worth fighting for, whatever that may be; a job, a dream, a person. All of us have hope that tomorrow will be better than today. All of us have faith in the fact that in the end we will end up achieving what we have been trying for because the intangible feelings of achievement, success, pride, love, passion, and good are infinitely valuable for our lives. This is why we keep going everyday. For the hope that what we are doing is right and will make the world a better place. To improve our own lives and the lives of others. We believe that when we go to sleep at night we will know that there is some hope, no matter how small, that tomorrow things will just be......good. That faith-driven belief means that we should never give up on what we want to achieve. The results, as I can happily attest to, were exactly as I dreamed. Hope, Faith, and a Dream: it's what we all have, what we all want, and what we all know, that if we work hard enough, we can achieve. I hope tomorrow is better than today. 10 years ago I knew that my parents might not make it work with each other, but they did. 5 years ago I didn't know whether my Dad and I would ever talk again, but we did. 4 years ago I didn't know whether or not I'd get into a good college, but I did. 3 years ago I didn't believe I would ever recover from my first semester of college, a 2.82, but I did. 1 year ago I didn't know whether I would ever find someone who saw the good in me, but I did. One month ago I didnt know whether or not that the one person I found could ever have that faith in me to believe who I was and what I wanted, but I did. And one day ago I didn't know whether or not I would ever be able to work hard enough in school to get to where I wanted to be..........imagine what I "won't know" tomorrow. Only when you can see the invisible can you achieve the seemingly impossible. So to life, I'll see you tomorrow morning, in hopefully a better world than today.