People
in my country have a habit of saying, "It will
get better" when facing a difficult
situation. You will often hear it in French "ça va aller"
or in Pidgin English "E go beta".
When
there is not enough foot, “E go beta”.
When
an epidemic strikes, “E go beta”.
One
day, a foreigner who wondered how people could endure such difficult
living conditions exclaimed: " How can you say 'It will get
better' when everything is going wrong?"
So,
her host told her the story of the chief of the diamond village. 
A
village famous for its diamond mines was headed by a chief known for
his wisdom. But the chief was already old and he had to appoint a
successor from among his three sons. He had the idea of putting
them to a test. Leading them to the entrance of a still unexploited
mine, he said to them:
