10.20.10 - Mission #16 Hope

If we were robots, or superman then maybe we wouldn't feel pain. Maybe we wouldn't have to witness extreme poverty. Maybe three million people wouldn't struggle to live on less than $2 a day.


And maybe we wouldn't feel so lonely, ugly, inferior, stupid.
But we are human, and we are all hurting.


In all of this, there is hope. There is a hope that the beauty that dwells in every person will shine. Every one, every being would see each other and themselves as beautiful and dignified. 


Amidst even the incredible injustice, there is hope that one day we will recognize that we are all worthy of living and that every life is a miracle. At the end of the day what would really matter is not how much money you made for the sake of making money or how poorly or perfectly you scored on an examination for the sake of being another statistic, or your status according to worldly standards - but what would really become of consequence is what you've shared with a person, who you talked to, who you loved.


That to me, is the hope that I believe will change the world. 


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So here my mission began: 

I come here often to just relax. 

Yes, it is the library. 

But it is the one place in this school that gives me

relief. 

I hope that whoever picked up my gift is  

fond of Hello Kitty. If not, then I'm so sorry. I hope you 

may find somebody who does. 

I hope these words may give you the strength to look

past your suffering. Don't give up. 

“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”
Tori Amos”

—	Tori Amos God Bless You! -the gray bird