the tunnel

Don't you love when someone says to look forward to the light at the end of the tunnel?
I don't actually know if any of my friends have ever said that. Maybe it's because the statement is so cliche and trite, and not very comforting. Of late, i've come to resent that statement a lot. What exactly is the tunnel I'm looking through? My present issue or life altogether?
If it's my present issue, I'm not comforted because i know another tunnel is just past the light at the end of this one. I can even see it now. If it's life altogether, I'm still not that comforted. Are you telling me i have to wait for perhaps 70 more years to get to the "light"? And what is the "light" exactly? Clarity, or just an end to the sadness?
Who came up with this expression???
I'm being very contrary.

So I will relent a little. I do not spit on the expression's sentiments completely. I think there is some truth in it. However, i just don't fnd it very comforting. How long do i have to wait for this stupid light? So I was wondering, as Christians, might our experience be slightly different? Maybe we not only have this "end of the tunnel" experience, but also a "light in the tunnel" experience....maybe? Maybe Christ comes into the tunnel with us, lights it up, makes it less damp and dark and cold and dreary and depressing and devastating... and then we come out and He's still there! We can't escape the tunnels. There is no alternate route. And I don't like tunnels. But at least we don't have to walk through them blindly and alone.