Hope lies in the darkest places

Every year a few little words appear in a Glasgow University stairwell, the first time I noticed it was the summer of 2005 (photo bottom right), and when I was walking around the uni a few weeks ago it noticed it back again (top photo). Here’s someone else’s story:

On the landing of the steps up to the quadrangle when I was sitting my finals someone had written ‘Hope lies’, in chalk on the wall of that dark corner. I couldn’t bear it for some reason, and when no one was around I tried to rub off the word ‘lies’. I made a hole in the cuff of my jacket trying to get it off, and yet it was still stubbornly legible.

The next time I went up, someone, infinitely more clever than me, had simply added to it. It now read ‘Hope lies in the darkest places’.

I thought it was beautiful.
(eilidh)