If  there should be a quote to represent one strong belief that I have, perhaps it would be the popular quote by singer John Lennon, “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”.

I believe in happy endings—no, not those perfect endings that we read about in fairy tales, where the prince and the princess lives happily ever after, but the kind of endings that give us something to be satisfied about. We all know far too well that life isn’t a bed of roses—there will be challenges along the way that we will need to overcome before we can move on to pursue our  goals and journey on with life.

When times get rough, I tell myself that everything is going to be fine, because I know that somehow I’ll get through it. I know it, because there is always someone or someplace I can seek reprieve. I know it, because there will always be something to gain out of it that makes all the pain worthwhile. I know it, simply because this is what I believe in. That there will always be the good and the bad, that life will always seek to restore balance.

We might not be able to achieve the ideal outcome all the time, but we might just get something much more valuable in exchange, something that makes everything okay in the end.