Change
"We cannot hold onto anything forever. Time changes, things change, and so does the world. We cannot undo these changes and we cannot force them into whatever direction we would like them to go. They will happen, and we have no power over how or what happens. We can look back on certain memories and wish we still had them but we don't, nor can we bring them back. We must learn to accept the past and move on to endure more memories, which in time will also fade. We may want to hold onto the present time forever, never to change, but it will. People will grow old, friends will be lost, friends will be found, people will be born, and people will die. Every loss comes with a winning. Without pain we cannot truly appreciate joy. We learn to see how time changes, and as time passes by, so do people. Everything changes. Nothing as you know it today will be the same tomorrow. Every living thing will pass away. Life comes with one guarantee, death. Then you begin to notice how much one life can make such a significant difference and impact on the world. In a good or bad way, everyone makes a difference."
Lauren Kierath, 2006