Did the man in the photo above make good choices or is his life strewn with regrets?
The quality of each person’s life is the result of the impact of outside forces over which there is no control and also decisions made deliberately by the individual.
When I hear of the death of young people, I wonder if they had lived long enough to gather wisdom into their decisions.
Or, did they have a low quality of their short life because they didn’t live long enough to know what is truly important.
And how does happenstance impact our view of life.
I know a very poor young man who has had a tough childhood and a mighty struggle in adulthood.
One day he asked me, “Why am I not lucky?”
The quality of his life has been degraded by a terrible mother and his wrong decisions in adulthood.
The only advice I can offer, despite these outside influences, to have a high quality life is that you must try to live by the following virtues: Honesty, loyalty, compassion, charity, forgiveness, humility, patience and gratitude.
It would seem that some people have a far less opportunity for a happy life than others and no one seems to be able to know why.
All we can do to help these people is to demonstrate kindness, patience and support in our daily lives any way we are able.
If not today, when?
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