I was thinking yesterday about saving lives and how important that can be in one's life.
When I was having the most trouble staying alive was in my early 20s and I found that when I tried to help other stay alive I also helped myself stay alive too while I was in college. First, I joined operation Share which was in Palomar College in the 1970s and I began tutoring children as a volunteer which was a good thing both for them and for me. The other thing I did was to get training in how to prevent suicides as a suicide prevention volunteer through my college. These two things (because of the training I received) also helped keep me alive too at the time which was a good thing so I could get married and have my own family and travel the world and be very happy by my early 30s.
Often times if you can survive the changes you are going through, often the changes are temporary and just a part of you growing up and becoming a whole person in life.
Life is never easy and if you can't figure out enough stuff fast enough then often you won't survive your life, especially in your teens and early 20s. So, maybe the most important place to be is to be open to changing especially in your teens and 20s when nothing is what it appears to be (at least for very long).
So, in helping others stay alive you also help yourself stay alive, especially in high school and college and during those years of your lives. The more proactive you are at saving your own life and others the more likely it will be that you will survive to 30 or beyond yourselves.
Because what I have discovered is that if you can survive to 30 somehow then 80 to 100 becomes more doable for almost everyone.
By God's Grace
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