The thing I like the best is talking to people. The lives that they lay out before you, the heartbreak, the loves that they have experienced fill my thoughts. When I was younger, I always wanted to fix things . . somehow make life better for them. Now I know that their experiences were perfect just the way they were. It was only me that needed fixing.
In the long past, a young man going off to war in Viet-Nam told me he was disappointed in me because as the President of the Student Body of Waipahu High School, I had some responsibility for his fate. I agonized over this this for years. If I had known what to do to make it better, I would have done it.
He has long since passed. My feelings of responsibility were just an arrogance on my part.
Life grants all of us the opportunity to learn and grow in whatever way we want, and all of us have the responsibility for our own lives.