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Move Forward

With age comes experience and with experience comes knowledge and understanding. No one individual is ever completed with his or her growth. For the wisest of all men has death to face. And with death imminent for all, one will still have to face fear till the very end of one's existence. So to take what one learns through life and to press on towards the goals set will one begin to face new, challenging, and sometimes even exciting new fears. Life will never complete itself until one has completed the life he is given. Therefore it is incredibly irresponsible to merely accept death as the imminent future, settle into a comfort zone naught of challenge, and to merely exist. Could a better definition of waste be drawn?

It is each and everyone's responsibility to konw who he is. And it is, therefore, each and everyone's responsibility to take what he has as genetic tools to better his life and to better the lives of others. For if all accepted individuality and accepted the individuality of others, then all would have the sympathy for one another.

This is harmony; the ideal nature of life by which life is then lived. To live in harmony with one another is but a simple step forward in one's thinking.

Once one has recognized one's individuality, accepted one's fears, and chosen to set goals and move foward with the important aid of hope, will one have truly conquered living life.

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經驗伴隨著年齡增長，知識與寬容伴隨著經驗增長。人的增長空間是無限的，因為最聰明的人也要面對死亡。死亡對每個人來說都不遠。只要人活著，就會有未知的事物去面對。

所以，一個人終生學習，向目標奮進，就會迎來新的挑戰，有時甚至是新的恐懼。生活從不會自己終結，除非你終結生命。因此，垂手等待死亡，期待一個毫無挑戰的安樂鄉，只是為了活下去，這是對自己的不負責任。還有比被喻為垃圾更好的定義嗎?

每個人都應當知道自己是誰，而且他應該用自己天生的能力改變自己的生活，以及別人的生活。因為如果每個人都認同個體的存在及其他個體的存在，那么他就會對其他人有同情之心。

這就是和諧——生活的最高境界。與他人和諧共處其實是只要人這么想就能辦到的。只要一個人認同了他的個體性、接受他的恐懼、選擇了目標、懷著希望奮勇前進，那么他就真正地戰勝生活了。