All of us desire to live in a better world and that hope is a goal that we continue to strive for. Sometimes, though, the path to it is strewn with curves, drops and climbs that slow us down. Sometimes those obstacles blot out the goal entirely and we find ourselves meandering through life in a daze. It is the hope of the world that encourages us to go on, and it is the loss of that hope that brings us down. Still, if we forget that hope is a tool that keeps us on that target to our future and the world we would like to inhabit, we lose our way completely, and have to target our wants and desires on hope itself. We have to reach for it and, if possible, grab it and hold it tightly in our hands, just so we can again see the first goal that we had. This is the story of some who have hopes and dreams like the rest of us and how they seek to reach them. Yet, it also tells us what we already know, that hope is only a tool and not a guarantee of the future we seek.