[avandonk]

When all of humanity become mere spectators and just watch the winners do their thing, we will lose the ability to produce people that even have a chance of becoming the winners.

It is the active participation of many interested people in ANY field that is important. Not the achievements of the few at the top. The gold tip at the top of the pyramid owes its exalted place to all the lowly stones below. Without their support the gold tip is down in the sand with the rest of us stones.

The real joy is in the journey and the learning on the way, not the destination.

Is not the destination of all life death? This fact should not affect how we live our lives apart from not taking life for granted. Just enjoy every day as if it is your last as one day it will be!

This is how I cope with my mortality without the crutch of wishful thinking of an imagined paradise.

Bert