It's hard work to maintain it, but I do try. I feel it's easier to give in to nothingness than to maintain hope.

[ and that's the bottom line of it for her. hope is a challenge, as much as it is so difficult to maintain, but she's eager to keep it going. ]

It's hard for us to agree on anything together as a species, much less figure out who to work with.

Perhaps, in time, things will change. [ that's all she can say about it, really. ]