You Spend So Much Time Wondering Who

If I Have The Means, I Have The Responsibility To Employ Them.

Let Me Tell You Something You Haven't Learned Yet, Something You Learn Only By Living Awhile. As You Get Older, You Find That Life Begins To Wear You Down. Doesn't Matter Who You Are Or What You Do, It Happens. Experience, Time, Events - They All Conspire Against You To Steal Away Your Energy, To Erode Your Confidence, To Make You Question Things You Wouldn't Have Given A Second Thought To When You Were Young. It Happens Gradually, A Chipping Away That You Don't Even Notice At First, And Then One Day It's There. You Wake Up And You Just Don't Have The Fire Anymore." He Smiled.

Fear Is A Fire To Temper Courage And Resolve. Use It So.

This Is For Writers Yet To Be Published Who Think The Uphill Climb Will Never End. Keep Believing. This Is Also For Published Writers Grown Jaded By The Process. Remember How Lucky You Are.

What We Have In Life That We Can Count On Is Who We Are And Where We Come From, She Thought Absently. For Better Or Worse, That's What We Have To Sustain Us In Our Endeavors, To Buttress Us In Our Darker Moments, And To Remind Us Of Our Identity. Without Those Things, We Are Adrift.