Idiots Don't Know They're Idiots, Which Is

If What I Read Doesn't Reflect My Life - Whether I'm Gay Or Latino Or On Welfare - Doesn't That Really Mean That My Life Is Not Valuable?

Can You Become The Hope I Need? Can You Help Me Be More Than It Is Written In My Future Or Past? Is There Another Me To Find?

Everything In Life Is Made Up...you Make Up That You Are Happy. You Make Up That You Are Sad. You Make Up That You Are In Love. If You Don't Make Up Your Own Life, Who's Going To Make It Up For You? It's Bad Enough When You Die And Everybody Can Make Up Their Own Stories About You. —mr. Hooft

It's A Hard Life Sometimes And The Biggest Temptation Is To Let How Hard It Is Be An Excuse To Weaken

But In The End, We Learn We Can Forgive Most People. The Cushion Of Mortality Makes Their Wrongdoing Seem Less Dark, And Whatever Roads They Traveled Seem Less Foolhardy.