I am here

Life is a struggle.  

I don't honestly believe that there is a reason for this.  I don't think I'll be reborn a street person for being bad, or a millionaire if I am good any more than I believe all millionaires are good people or all street people are bad.

I'm also pretty sure that what comes around goes around.  People learn from their own experiences or by watching other people.  Generosity and kindness are powerful teachers, as are brutality and greed.

I don't believe in suffering for the sake of suffering.  I find that counter intuitive to life.  Of course if it makes a person feel better to suffer, I guess that's fine as long as it doesn't carry over onto those nearby.

I do believe that I am here to do the best I can with what I have and sometimes that seems really hard, but when I make progress it also feels really good.

I am here to find my place in this world, a place where I can use my particular skills, confident that this is enough and that all skills are necessary from sweeping the floor to designing space age machinery.