[Cedwards38]

Yes they do. Yes we do. Yes it does. No we are not.

I have experienced extraordinary change over my lifetime. In many ways I am a different, and hopefully a better person than when in my youth. We all make choices. We all control a large part of our destiny. We've all made bad choices and good choices in life, and we are judged not on whether we made mistakes, but rather on how we handled those mistakes. I believe I am a better person than I used to be, and hope I will be a better person than I am now.

In the end we are judged by how we treat others. We are judged not by the amount of money we have in the bank, or our net worth, or the jobs we have held, or the size of our home, or the number of possessions we have accumulated, or the degrees and honors we hold, or the success of our family, or the knowledge we can share in conversation, or the score of our golf game (ok, maybe we are judged a little on that), or the books we have read, or the god we worship or don't worship, or the color of our skin, or the heritage from which we evolve, or the philosophy we espouse.

So how have I changed? I realize these things now, and I didn't always.