"To be or not to be." To live, love, hurt, cry, rejoice, and morn. To taste the bitter and sweet, to feel the joys and angers, to cherish and regret. To ponder and reflect upon all these as I grow old until the day that I am not to be here any longer....
Then, I'll see you in a new world under the everlasting light of the Son.

As much as "all the world is a stage," so is "all of life a school." Aside from the formal institutionalized education or the learning from daily cultural socialization, life, in itself, is a continuous learning experience from birth to death. To a greater or lesser extent we may be aware of life as a school and the world as a stage; to a greater or lesser degree we may be a student in the audience or a teacher on the stage. Nevertheless, we will succeed or fail to learn the lessons of life; thus, we will perform or flop in the spotlight of the world.

David Alan Holding
December 1994