These are dark days. Darkness covers the earth like an indelible layer of black mist, concealing all the secrets of the earth’s beauty. One cannot help but gaze at this situation with a regretful sense of despair and helplessness. To wish that there was a humungous vacuum cleaner that could suck out the mist of darkness to restore light and to bring hope is akin to cultivating a wishful make belief.

As much as it might seem like a hopeless dream, one must believe that brighter days lie ahead. Not just because embracing this dream helps us to get through today with an adequate measure of emotional survival, but also because this dream is a promise that is real. For it to bring true hope, it must be implicitly understood that this dream is real. A dream that carries only the prospects of wishful thinking constitutes nothing more than the fantasies of a foolish man whose feet aren’t planted on the ground.

But because we have a real dream which will be translated into reality at the appointed time, we must keep dreaming. It is this dream, together with the believing that the dream is true, that will propel us to keep waddling ourselves through the darkness of the mist that has covered the world, in the understanding that one day the light of promise will shine through.

When it's as dark as it can get, then you'll know that it can only get brighter.