Perspective. That is what people need. Maybe even what they are getting, now. If you fail one test, or even one class, does it really matter? Absolutly not. Look at the assets of life. One thing about the world, pessemism is a trend. People can get so caught up in their duty's and daily hell that they forget how pretty the sky is. They forget that they have a family who loves them and friends who they enjoy. I would personally rather lose HOPE completely than suffer losing a good friend. As the song says, "I get by with a little help from my friends." I will always remember the countless times I would be told at church or at home or at school that it didn't matter if other families had more money than us, that we were richer. I sort of considered it one of the all time classic lies. Maybe my parents had more wisdom than i credited them for. I consider each day I spend among friends a wealth beyond the mines of Solomon.

I love life. I think that THAT is what truly matters. Find something that you can love and love it. It bothers me deeply how there are people who can waste this life in anticipation of what's to come, waiting to get to Heaven. If God had wanted you to do nothing but wait to get to Heaven, then he would have put you there. No, God has some purpose in putting people here on Earth. Some believe that the purpose is to tend for it, others find purpose in caring for each other. In any case, I don't care how people spend their precious time here just so long as they do, in fact, spend it. Nothing could be more dissapointing at the end of a life than having not used it. There are millions of people out there who long for their eternity who don't know what to do on a Sunday afternoon. The gift of life is, in itself, a piece of that Heaven.