Human always desperate on something. If they are not, they would have already become a saint or perhaps even god? So is it right to be desperate on something? And is it good to hold on so tight on something? This must be answer in human life.
As a human, there are 5 basic needs:
1. Physiology
2. Safety
3. Sense of belonging
4. Esteem
5. Self actualization
The more needs that you have fulfilled, the things that you desperate to get become more and more non-critical for your survival as human provided you were guided in the right way in progress of reaching level5.
Some of the things you just can't control it. Fate shall decide it. Human always can have hope but in the end, it is always fate that will be deciding the outcome.
So, human is responsible for the hope that they are aiming for. Everyday, they strife, the things they do, the comments they make, all of this are attributed to the aiming of having higher hope.
What is your hope? Once decided, you will be responsible to bring it to highest possible level for it to be realized.
There is a huge different between hopes and goals. I believe more in hopes where the force within the universe will decide things.