My favorite lessons

A few things to ponder; taken from "The 5 people you meet in Heaven"
Lesson one:
"Fairness does not govern life or death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. Look at the mourners at a funeral. Some will not even know the deceased, yet they go. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why they feel they should? It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in that small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me too. It happens everyday. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole. It is why we are drawn to babies... and funerals."

Lesson two:
"Sacrifice. Sacrifice is part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. A man goes to war... "
A random thought from the book- Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

Lesson three:
"Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

Lesson four: (In regards to losing a loved one)
"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end. Love doesn't."

Lesson five:
Sometimes you just have to accept that you are SUPPOSED to be at the place you are in your life.