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Dear Students:
The essence of life is time, yet time is a void. This is not to imply that life
is necessarily empty, quite the contrary. It is challenged and shaped by each
and every one o f us. It is only in this manner tha t dreams are fulfilled. The
unknown offers us all of everything, yet some chose a p ortion of nothing.
To acquiesce to this fear, is to reject experience, experience which is the
present o f future time. I can see no finer utilization of time than that of devoting
all of one's talents to the thoughts and needs of others. It is in this vein, only,
that our s uccess can be meas ured.
Reflections are "the present" of our pasts and, as sure, a necessary tool for
shaping our future. A future which years from now , will be a se ries of images.
In many w ays, the epitome of living was put in words by a far greater man than I:
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
failure, than to rank with these poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, be
cause they live in the grey tw ilight that
knows not victory or defeat" - Theodore Roosevelt
It is ever so precious for each a nd every man to at least have said that he
tried his best.
Sincerely,