I am posting this just so people have an alternative view. Please dont argue in the next commentaries that hope is a good thing - I, for example, am better without it.
3.One interpretation of the myth that I have heard is that Pandora, by closing the box before hope would get out, didnt bring the world to its end. The idea that hope brings one s demise comes from observing what happens to someone who goes on only by hope. Refusing to accept reality and having expectations that will probably never materialise (isnt that what hope is, when not based on anything but