Life is about who you love and who you hurt.

It’s about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully.

It’s about keeping or betraying trust.

It’s about friendship, used as a sanctity or weapon.

It’s about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.

About not starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip.

It’s about your judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are spread to.

It’s about who you’ve ignored with full control and intention.

It’s about stopping jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge.

It’s about stopping inner hate and fostering inner love, letting it grow, and spread.

But most of all,

It’s about using your life to touch and not poison other people’s hearts In such a way that could have never occurred alone.

Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what LIFE’S all about…

Karl Erikson <http://www.connect.net/karl/>

“There’s lots of ways to blaze a trail. I always think back to those unsung heroes of the past. Like that prehistoric gourmet who looked at that lobster and said, “I’m gonna eat that.” Or the first healer who picked up a knife and said, “Let’s operate boys.” You see, adventures come in all shapes and sizes. Like getting your hair cut. Falling in love. Even getting behind the wheel and backing out of the driveway can be a sublime act of faith, as well as a monumental act of courage.”

— Chris Stevens, KBHR AM, Cicely Alaska