Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one$$$" he told me$$$ "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
There are only the pursued$$$ the pursuing$$$ the busy and the tired.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
<p>So we beat on$$$ boats against the current$$$ borne back ceaselessly into the past.</p>
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.
You’ll find more cheer in a graveyard.
Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise do not see all ends.
Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must$$$ while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.