For some, confidence is just a ego tool or a smoke screen. It is one thing to have the answer(s) and be confident in your ability, and quite another to have a false bravado based on the ego. Many bigots, religious zealots, and cult leaders are confident, but their confidence lies in something untrue.

Now to truth. There is no extent to hope and no such thing as a hopeless situation. People may believe that they are in a hopeless situation because they are limiting themselves to only one point of view. As Grace alluded to above we think we need to act a certain way to not stir the pot or make waves among the people we are surrounded with. However, if we were real with one another, if we could really see the hearts of those around us we would see clearly that they also are suffering with their own unique pains. You perhaps are simply brave enough to put a voice to it, that is the only way to heal. Ignoring something does not make for a better situation. A person who can admit their truest and deepest feelings is not a hopeless person, they are a brave and real person. That is the path to real confidence, not the screen people put up and pretend that everything is ok all the time. Keep fighting...

I know I have enjoyed you being here in IQ. I can't as much say that hopefulness is in regard to each person as much as it seems as in regard to the moment. Some people seem naturally more hopeful, they have made hopeful a habit. But as well we must think of the optimist and pessimist, these seem like a born trait but I believe not so much. I believe that and have experienced that these traits can switch within a person, that a optimist can turn pessimistic and get depressed. This can also happen to the pessimist that the pessimist turns optimist as well. However there does seem to be a set point that to each is own and hence inclined to level toward eventually if not presently.

So there are times where I may feel hopeful a lot for everything, but other times where even something small can set my mind to, "What is the point, I'm tired of this!" I can't say it is as much an amount of time as it seems more to do with reflection on life and does it seem like I'm progressing or not? Where I am progressing I can feel hopeful but where life seems failing or stagnant or confusing that hope fades away.

I think this is something that is experienced by all, peeks and troughs, it is evident in biorythm charts that this happens to everyone. It must be observed that as sure as there are troughs there are peeks as well and we will experience those peeks if we ride out the troughs. It helps turning to God and putting your faith in God instead of yourself, "If I can't do it then I'll let him do it." It is easier to trust in God to handle things because he created to universe, this should be easy for him to care for. But even that can backfire if we are feeling pretty low and feel like God doesn't care or have time for us. I will tell you this much as sure as we may feel hopeless that this is not permanent there are happy days returning in the future, keep up the mindset that, "Every day in every way, things are improving, and life is getting better and better." You don't even need believe that but say that every time you feel down. Say it as a affirmation and mantra. Put that in a subliminal program to flash on the screen. This is not just some feel good thing it is a fact because as sure as there are troughs there are as well peeks! Fight through the troughs and climb those mountains to the peeks, you can do it, you have done it and will again, it is worth it to stick it through.

Perfect Good,

You and I, and the other 7 billion humans residing on earth, belong to a race of Conscious Energy Essence Personalities. We exist to create. To become "successful" creators, we must learn how to skillfully manipulate the energy environment in which we exist. As energy beings (Souls), we can never know death. We can change form, just as all energy can, but we simply cannot be destroyed. Earth is a school, one of many space/time playgrounds where all that is educates its youth in the proper use of energy manipulation to satisfy our natural impulse to create. Apparently, incarnating and reincarnating multiple times in a three dimensional material world serves as the best way for us to receive basic training.

Consciously or unconsciously, you are creating what you perceive as your reality. Together we create what we perceive as the mass reality. All of this is done in accordance with the universal Law Of Attraction. LOA teaches us that we will attract what we give our attention to. If you are dwelling on your failures, you will attract and experience more of the same. Observe how your emotions are gradually moving from feeling "hopeful" and "confident" (positive) to despair, doubt and disenchantment. Your feelings/emotions are not some kind of psychological quicksand, from which you cannot escape. They are an internal guidance system, designed to help you navigate through life. In this case, they are simply telling you "Perfect good, warning, you are giving your attention to failure, check for program errors, check your beliefs about this subject. Pay attention to your thinking." Delete beliefs that are not serving you in a positive way. When your thoughts are back in alignment with your desires, your guidance system will show you though an increase in positive, hopeful, feelings and emotions.

Now, or at sometime in the future you will come to understand that all events in your life are born and raised from the beliefs you hold. Altering beliefs will alter your personal reality. Below are the beliefs revealed in your post, either stated or inferred? I apologize for any misinterpretations on my part. Any comments with respect to a belief are there to offer you a different perspective, which you may or may not choose to consider.

"The world wants to see only confident people." This is an unhelpful belief. Confidence is a positive quality that souls desire; they may spend many lifetimes filled with failure after failure in order to attain this goal. The "world" of souls wants only to see others "successfully" fulfilling their greatest potentials. This life may be solely devoted to confidence building for one and compassion for another. You might alter this belief to instead read, "The world wants to see people, who despite repeated failure, are confident enough to keep trying!"

"No expression is valued without confidence." Negative Belief. Suggested change to read: "By giving value to every expression, I can help someone to feel more confident about themselves and what they have to offer"

"Every person loves to live." (Widely recognized as the best way for one to deal with knowing they can never die.")

"Nobody wants to give their time to a hopeless person." If this is your belief, this will be what you experience. You create your reality.

"Nobody wants to respect a person who is hopeless." People are not going to respect someone just because they are hopeful either. We generally respect a person because of the qualities they have. We do not necessarily withhold respect from someone because of a quality they do not have.

"A person has to remain hopeful in front of others."
Maybe if you believe you have behave in certain ways just to please others. Remember, your emotions are there to help guide you. If you feel you cannot be yourself around people, I suggest you find new people to associate with, ones who are not judging you because of how you feel or appear.

"If he does not do that people will kill him in a number of ways." If you believe that, that will be your perception. Again, if these are the type of people you want to associate with, then you are surrounding yourself with their negative energy. No wonder you are feeling hopeless.

To be successful is to live. To be a failure is death. Your personal success in this life might depend on whether or not you realize how limiting and counter productive this belief is. Furthermore, your success may eventually come because of what your failures are teaching you, as is often the case.