First of all, I admire you @freemotherearth by telling these stories and it was an interesting read. I can say that I can relate with you. These stories are well alive all around the world (others are even worst). As time pass by I am still in awe and I acknowledge that "everything can happen" and the "possibilities are endless" and most of the time we are always surprised how things gone by. Most of the time things happen that we never expect and not we have hoped for.
Thank you for your words, @afterglow! Human nature really is a funny thing to behold. The passing of the torch to the next generation begins long before we have grown old and grey, and there is something to behold in mystery of the unknown that clouds the path in front of us.
I just sincerely hope that life imitates art as much as art imitates life. Most stories for countless centuries truly do have a happy ending for the greater picture regardless of the dark challenges faced, and I like to believe there is a reason for that. This gives me hope for the world these teens are inheriting.
Indeed, this gives me hope that the future of the generations to come is not so dim at all.
Greetings from the Philippines!