There is a saying that when someone is struck down without warning that he "didn't know what hit him." It's a bit of a copout, providing the excuse that what happened wasn't the individual's fault at all. That it couldn't have been avoided and no one is to blame.Frankly, that's just a bunch of hokey horseshit.
Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, __here is always a day of reckoning._ The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits__urselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human__ life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.
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Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, __here is always a day of reckoning._ The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits__urselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human__ life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.
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