Skeletons, Fossils, Telephone Calls, Enemies, and Dreams.

Skeletons. What do they mean to you?
Perhaps when I was young they meant Halloween, or spooky things like haunted houses. It meant going from door to door and opening up a pillowcase and getting some candy. What does it mean now? Now it means learning the anatomy of a human body, or the evolutionary aspects of primates. Now it means my future. The candy I get from skeletons now is an A in a course, and eventually a degree.

Fossils. Do they disprove the Bible?
I'm not religious. I don't claim to be. But if fossils prove that there have been evolutionary advancements of primates, and that perhaps all primates ascended from one ancestral primate, then what can really be said to dispute that? If God created man such as in the form of Adam, then where did these "ancient" primates come from, and why do they exist? Fossils can't lie. Words can.

Why I don't talk on the phone.
There's nothing to talk about. I'm doing fine. You're doing fine. Even if you're not, you'll say that you are. Same with me. Because that's what people do on the phone. Next time you call me don't start off with "How are you". Start off with, "Hey, Stephen, what do you think of the blind-sided views that members of a religion carry, and the effects their narrowed view of the world has on their lives?"

Enemies. You are your biggest one.
No one else has the capability of bringing you down and keeping you there more than yourself. When you rely on others to pull you up, you become dependent. The world is not geared to reward or profit dependent people. Learn to get up on your own, and keep yourself there. Whether it's by writing, reading, music, or whatever. Other people can knock you down. That's a part of the world, a world that really isn't fair. It's up to you to get back up. Don't expect anyone else to help you in that regard. Only you. You're all you will ever have sometimes. Learn to deal with it. Learn to move on with no one else. You can only hope that, in time, they will come.

Dreams. Get some.
Stop thinking that your life will amount to nothing. Find someone worth protecting. Find something worth fighting for. Find something you want. And get it. Don't let someone tell you that you can't. They don't know what you can and can't do. Only you know that. And you only know when you try. And you'll only try when you dream. You'll fail. I can assure you that. You won't succeed every time. You might not ever succeed. But to stop trying in the face of failure is to admit defeat. It is to be defeated in the act of life. There isn't a goal of life or a specific rule that says you win. That's because we each make those goals and rules for ourselves. If you want to be a winner, then you know what you have to do. Don't listen to someone else's rules. Make your own, and live by them.