"We are all waiting for Godot." (in Syria--who new?)

Just reading a BBC story about a person in Syria who has stopped wondering why the West "
never comes."  He finds comfort however in Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."  Apparently some of his friends and family have been resisting the Assad regime for over 3 decades.

  It reminds me of Sartre's answer to the meaning of life: "Hope!" he said cheerily.  But as in Godot, that hope is more abstraction than reality; and might I add, more of the entertainment variety--"That passed the time." / "But it would have passed anyway."/ "Yes; but not so quickly!!!:)" (emoticon mine)