Expectation

He didn’t have two nickels to rub together and he never did tell me how he ended up in that fix. Still, he was a man of considerable good cheer and possessed of an honest-to-goodness equanimity. I asked him what he expected of this life. He said, “I’d like to live in a peaceful world but it’s not worked out that way. I try and help others but I’m not always able. I don’t have much but, truth is, if there’s air in all four tires and enough jelly to go with the peanut butter, then there’s hope.”