For all those who have been annoyed by my long posts. Sorry about that. I've included this all in an lj-cut tag so that you can read it if you WANT to.
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What does it mean to always do the 'right' thing?
I don't know, really.
I know that my life has taught me valuable lessons about trust and honesty.
I know that patience and time will reveal things that you may have never thought possible about any given situation.
I know that people try so hard to do what they feel that they need to do in order to survive.
I've found that the way people today tend to make it in life is with a devious and manipulative nature. They swey others with carefully planned words, usually hiding details and buring half truths.
I've found that I just can't seem to do it like they do.
I've found that being the 'better man' means to make sure that all parties involved know that there is a 'better way' - regardless of any decisions made afterwards.
I've found that survival is about knowing who you are, even amidst whatever growing you may do along the way.
I've found that people are the ones who decide their fates in the end, and that no one can take that away from them.
I've found that mercy means knowing when to let someone go in order to help them to become happier and healthier people on their own terms.
I've found that humans have a very neat tendency of doing what we least expect, regardless of our awareness of the phrase "Expect the unexpected."
I've found that hope and faith are things we learn, not things we're born with.
I've found that the easiest way to make the world a better place is to improve upon yourself.
I've found that giving to people freely must stop very early on in order to allow those people to know what it means to "want."
I've found that fasting is abouthe quickest way for a person to teach themself what it means to "need."
I've found that giving trust freely is the greatest gift you can give the world.
I've found that freely given trust without boundries is dangerous.
I've found that life is full of hurtful things.
I've found that natural death isn't a hurtful thing.
I've found that learning about a person from the inside out, reguardless of how complete that education is, guarantees that that person will never die.
I've found that friendships are a two-way street.
I've found that the phrase "If you love something, let it go," is much deeper than most people think it is.
I've found that you never really lose friends - they just take extended vacations from eachother every now and again.
I've found that your family aren't always your friends.
I've found that in some situations, your family cannot be your friends - friends aren't that forgiving.
I've found that there truely are occasions in which your friends are closer to you than your family.
I've found that your friends can, on occasion, be just as big of an annoyance as your family.
I've found that I could never live alone.
I've found that I could never live without my family.
I've found that I have a lot of love for my family and friends.
I've found that the more time I spend with people, the more I wonder why it suprises us so much when people kill one another.
I've found that suicide is possible only for those convinced that they've nothing left to lose.
I've found that we often don't realize how much we have to lose.
I've found that being a friend shouldn't always mean saying and doing what you think makes your friends happy.
I've found that self-confidence is nothing more than the decision to live as though there were no tomorrow while still hoping that your actions today will make tomorrow a better day than today.
What does it mean to do the 'right' thing?
I think I may have a good idea.
I think that doing the 'right' thing is to take the hardest path possibe through the most dangerous road to travel along the highest mountains climbable with only one thought in your soul to drive you.
"I must preserve love... at all cost."