“Hope Springs Eternals”

   Right now, my life sucks.

   They found cancerous cells within the nodules that was removed from my dear old Mum’s after her last mastectomy. Now she had to undergo six courses of chemotherapy and hope for the best.

   I can’t pay my university fees.

   I kept sneezing all the time I’m in my room. Apparently 5 day’s worth of dust when I was gone is enough to ensure a hellish existence for me.

   And yet… with the heavy rain falling outside, bringing forth the calming scent of warm earth, how can I fail to convince myself that there is, after all, a silver lining in all this? I’m never much of a religious person, but as I observe the landscape come to life under the showers of rejunevating rain, all I can think of is “for the greater glory of God*”

   I guess it’s true what they say, “hope springs eternal”. Plus, I must not complain; wretched as I am, my standard of living is FAR higher than, oh, 3 billion other people on the planet. I worry about being able to pay the university my fees; for other people, they worry about not starving to death in some fly-ridden hell-hole.

   The resilience of the human spirit never ceases to amaze me.

*from the Latin phrase Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, which incidentally is the motto for Ateneo.