If I have learned anything in my first seventy-two years, it is that people and nature never change - only man-made things change.

Growing up in the early nineties, I had the same problems that Adam and Eve had. The problem changed little through the years in quantity or quality. Anyone who thinks the period he lives in has greater problems than before has not analyzed it as the problems average out pretty evenly.

To the man who gets killed it makes no difference whether he was hit over the head with a caveman's club, hit with an arrow, run over by a chariot, stabbed or blown up with a modern missile: it feels about the same.

Problems we will always have in youth, middle age and in old age. This world will never be perfect, for the Creator never intended it to be perfect. Forget about perfection or utopia, just do your best and remember that variety is the spice of life. Everybody is in the same boat, and eventually you can look back, and you will find that the scales are pretty well balanced.

Do not pay any attention to the demigod who preaches perfection, for all you can do on this planet is make things work better, look better or grow better, and you will get all the happiness you need.

If this world, or people, ever arrived at a perfect state, it would be dull, dreary and a miserable place to be.

Remember you are the center of your universe, not some puppet roaming around some other center.