I choose the above proverb as topic for my discourse this evening. There is light at the end of a tunnel. Of course the surface of the proverb is quiet encouraging and heart rekindling but it takes several potholes to lighten the tunnel. Obstacles and pains are bloods that run through the body of success. This life is a circuit it needs free flow of current from your terminal input (positive +) and that of life output (positive +) to get full voltage to lighting the tunnel.
This life is a cummulative effects. It is just like a soil, whatever you sow that is exactly what you will reap. Your input to life determines your output. The life is well programmed, every timing of destiny has its code ; nobody's code is the same as yours. Patience is indeed a virtue. The patience ones are the greatest achievers in life. You can't force your impatient lifestyle into the mouth of life for it's to vomit the code you are not programmed with.
Light comes to your tunnel when you value the life you are bestowed with. Life smiles at those who know it's value and pay the price to get the prize. As a stoic philosopher, I see life as a free being that reciprocates what it's is being fed with. The Creator of the universe is a perfect and Great Writer without error. He punctuated every story of human accurately without modicum of mistake. Everyone is created unique and perfect. You can't be like me and I can never be like you. Every human has tunnel and soon the tunnel will be illuminated with the appropriate programmed light. Don't force life, wait for life to do what it is programmed to do.
There is light at the end of a tunnel comes with sacrifices. The pains, the obstacles, the frustration, the trials and tribulations and prayers are what give full voltage to the tunnel to become brighter. Illuminate your tunnel with the life circuit and wait for your full voltage.