Kelly, I agree My childhood is something almost anyone could desire. Two extremly loving parents………both sets of grandparents Lots of Aunts and Uncles and cousins. Tons of friends, My adult life my dear you would not envy. I’ve had so many terrible tragedy’s in my life during the last 46 years. No one in their right mind would want to have to live through them. I’ve written about some of them here on Wow. When we get to a certain point in our lives Kelly we must come to the realization that there isn’t anything we can do about the past, except learn from the lessons. Everything from this time on……………… is our future. Make the best of each day………Be loving to your family, but remember most important of all is to be loving to your self. I was having a conversation with a friend about this subject today. I think the purpose of life is to be has happy as possible and have your days filled with JOY. When we are happy, we make others around us happy. I view all the things that have transpired in the last 50 years and wonder sometimes if they are for the good of mankind or the beginning of the end of tranquility for all of us. As in my above writing……..my childhood and most other children lives were carefree and very happy. Now children and young teenagers live’s are so filled with anxiety and so much fear. Just thinking about one word DEPRESSION………..that word didn’t exist as a decription on a persons emotional state when I was young……….We had sadness, but that’s a healthy state of emotion, Depression is a state of mental illness. We use that word to describe almost everyting that goes on in our daily lives………everyone is always saying they are depressed about something or other. We have more and more electronic mechanisms to communicate with each other, yet no one on one contact………instead of it bringing us together it seems to push us further apart. I hope I live long enough to see the radical changes all this is going to make in the World. I hope we have Writers who will write about the wonderful carefree life that the World had when we were more innocent………..I’m not trying to be a pollyana. I know that the World has always had terrible happenings……..Wars upon Wars, Natural disasters. etc. I’m just talking about the more simple times when we seem to have had time for each other. I for one MISS that. I have a question I ask myself every morning when I wakeup. Do you want to be happy today Dona? I then go about doing everything I can to be happy.