Manyin the "cancervillage" fear the clean up is too late for them buttheyclingto hope that it willsavetheir children and grandchildren from terminal illnesses.
However, left unchecked, those fears can drive us tocling on to the hope that if we procrastinate long enough, our situation will improve, or our misgivings will magically evaporate and be replaced with newfound clarity and courage.
The engineers of Silicon Valley may still clingto the hope of finding, at long last, the Next Big Thing a technology so whizzy it makes all those share options valuable again.