It is only four letters long and yet the difference it makes and the energy it unleashes sets it gamely apart from having a zest for living and not living at all.

I am talking about hope - that instinct that gives cause for optimism to appreciate life, and which has ceaselessly drove mankind through the ages in pursuit of a better tomorrow.

Next to hope, comes the exercise of choice. Just to how lucky we are to live in a society that creates various choices becomes dependent on the mission of hope we take unto ourselves, and the options that become available because of that endeavour.

So for every hope that illumines we are also looking at a choice - a choice through which we resolve to the kind of world we want; and with it the right for a better life.

And with every choice we pick we get the society we want. And what the vicarious result of all this amounts to, is the sum total of our collective bonding as humans.

"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you to contribute to making a better world. That's your choice,'' says renowned author Noam Chomsky, in The Chronicles of Dissent .