Your Epitaph is Yours to Earn, Your Legacy is Yours to Make. - Levi's

Life is often about the risks that you take in order to achieve an envisioned goal. That in the pursuit of attaining everything that you believe is rightfully yours, you discount the fear of losing everything and gaining nothing. In the process of achieving something, you keep in mind that your life is not based on fate or random circumstance. Rather, it is about the crucial decisions that you make. And as you reach the finality of the journey which you were willing to take, you worry not of the final outcome. For triumph and defeat mean nothing to you. It is the risks that you take, the decisions that you make and what you do or do not do that define you.

Hope is the Driving Force Behind Every Struggle.

"Kaakibat ng dilim ng gabi ang pangako ng bagong umaga."

A friend once told me, "Pare, hindi lahat ng bagay sa mundo ay nililkha ng dios para pasiyahin ka." I answered, "Oo naman. Meron din namang mga bagay na ginawa ng Diyos para pasiyahin ka, pangitiin ka, gawing kumpleto ang pagkatao mo at paasahin ka. Ngunit sa huli, hindi mo makukuha ang gusto mo. Ang sa tingin mo ay kinakailangan mo. Na hindi lahat ng pagwawakas ay nagtatapos sa isang happy ending tulad ng mga pelikula. Kadalasan, ang kabaliktaran ng mga inasam-asam mo ang napapala mo. Na ang mararamdaman mo ay kasing bigat o di kaya ay mas mabigat pa sa kahit anong trahedyang mararanasan mo. Ngunit sa huli, ang mahalaga dito ay natuto kang umasa. At ang mga ito ay nilikha ng Diyos para turuan kang umasa. Sapagkat isa sa mga mahahalagang bagay na matututunan mo dapat sa buhay ay ang magkaroon ng pag-asa."

The thing is, no matter how much effort you put into something, some things are never really yours to begin with. However, though you might face the biggest of obstacles, it is important that you remember whatever it is that you're fighting for. For when everything is telling you that you are bound to fail and that your efforts seem to make no sense, the only thing that would make you hold on is hope. And hope perhaps is the driving force behind every struggle.

That through hope, you can always envision an ending worth striving for. When you meet an undesirable end, it is hope that makes you stand up once again. It is that unexplainable thing that helps you accept and understand your failures and allows you to push on and start again. In a world that is engulfed in darkness and despair, it is hope that makes you dream of a brighter future.

It is the very same thing that makes others shine brighter than the Sun as it flames out against the darkness of the pitch black night.

It is hope that makes someone wait for something for the longest period of time. Even if it takes a lifetime or more.

Hope is the thing that makes helps you live a life worth living in a world worth dying for.