And between the two attitudes of hope and despair, which is truly humanizing? Which leads to

dehumanization? Why?"

We humans are living in this finite and limited universe, yet we aim for the perfect, for the

ultimate, for the divine. This perfection will never be found in this world, that’s why we must

hope that it exist beyond the limits of this horizontal plane of existence and is attainable by us.

By hoping we exercise our freedom for creative imagination and we respond to the call of our

inner dynamism that our life will eventually lead towards the infinite plenitude. We may not

know what it is like and where it is, but we know that it will truly satisfy and fulfill our

yearnings. Therefore, hope really does humanize us for it makes us believe that our life will

reach ultimate fulfillment and not lead to nothingness. However, if we choose to despair by

believing that perfection will never be attained and that divine does not exist, then we humans

become nonsense. We become absurd and frustrated beings for we yearn for perfection yet we

believe that it never exists. Despair will also hinder our growth and our freedom to transcend

limits for we believe that everything revolves around the horizontal plane of existence. We will

then have a negative view about life for we engrave into us that nothing is beyond this limited

and finite world and that we are bound to it, that we can’t overcome limitations. Thus, despair is

truly dehumanizing for our life becomes dull and empty and our whole being is crushed with

limitations that there will be no room for growth and freedom.