Depressing Hope

Author's Note:  After reading Fahrenheit 451 I was very disappointed with the ending. Throughout the book I loved it and then I personally thought that he messed up. In cause, I decided to explain why Ray Bradbury was wrong. In this piece I tried to show change in my fictional narrative and I also wanted to make it easy to relate to while still having a strong level of intellectuality. If you completely disagree with me, feel free to challenge what I said.

You are going to be great. Everything you have ever wanted in life will be placed at your feet. Then, time passes. You realize that you are just another leaf in the bush and your dreams shatter to the ground leaving you, alone, dripping with disappointment and embarrassment. Ray Bradbury is trying to get people to believe in hope at the end of Fahrenheit 451. The truth is, hope is a creation of the human mind for the mentally weak to grasp on to, and we must start living in the Now rather than making ridiculous expectations for our future.

Every child has dreams. Some want to be professional football players, others want to be rock stars. How many of these dreams actual come true? Their false hopes lead them to disappointment and once they learn that they can't just be whatever they want it is then when they become mentally mature. If you start worrying about what you are doing today maybe you do have a chance of doing good. Hope extinguishes the realization of having to do something in the present leading us to do nothing but wait for the world to fall in our hands.

Ray Bradbury had everything right going into the finale. Then he got it all wrong. Instead of Montag going off to live in the prairies with his hippie friends he should have either died alone or gone completely insane. He was hoping that he could bring back literature into a society that already marked it as taboo and turned their backs against it. Not only was it an impossible to task to complete, it was an impossible task just to stay on the fringe of sanity, any yet he managed to get out alive and sane. Being optimistic isn't always a good thing. Being filled with false thoughts isn't good for anyone and I don't think it should've been preached in Fahrenheit 451 .

If we give ourselves unrealistic goals our lives will be filled with disappointment which could end up in depression. If in fact you do end up depressed, my guess is that you're pretty far off from the original plan that you set before yourself. People need to worry about the present and not get caught up fantasizing about their futures. If it is meant to be, it will happen but that is only if you do what is needed today. Hope is the wrecking ball for our futures and we need to eliminate it as much as possible and enjoy what you have, while you have it.