Reply #4: allow me to quote Schindler's list

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If you save one human life, you have saved the world

Did you really expect to save the world at 13? I was 13 in 1975 so I cannot remember what I thought so long ago. A seventh grader I was just trying to get A's and make the honor society, or the junior honor society. I thought I would be rich, that I would goto college (already having been promised a daddy scholarship) and get a good job and help to solve problems like over-population and poverty.

I am sure if I met that kid, he might yell "so I grow up to be a loser!" He would not be impressed by my current job, nor by my accomplishments either professionally or socially, although he would have to be impressed with the family history I have compiled. He would also probably be too arrogant and optimistic to listen to any advice I might offer.

What can I say kid? I tried. I like to think that the world is, at least in some small ways, a better place because of what I have done in the last 30 years even if I never will win a Nobel Prize or even a lesser award such as "stupid a$$ jerk of the day". Time keeps on slipping into the future, but I have done at least a good deed for the day.