3. The time given to each of us is so precious. Each of us can decide to learn, to mature, and choose to have an impact on others. The time given to us will be fraught with disappointment and questions but it is there as Gandalf told an assuming hero…. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

Max Ehrman: “Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.” Desiderata

“If you can fill the unforgiving minute, With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run.” “If” by Ruyard Kipling https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’”

We continue with Ruyard Kipling’s poem, “If.” If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same;”

PTSD: A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.

“Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. He is known for his 1894 literature piece The Jungle Book. “If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..”

Mr. Miyagi: “It is okay to lose to opponent, must not lose to fear…You stay focused…Your best karate still inside…now time to let out.”

-Who was William Wallace? 1270[3] – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence. Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297. He was appointed Guardian of Scotland and served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. In August 1305, Wallace was captured in Robroyston, near Glasgow, and handed over to King Edward I of England, who had him hanged, drawn and quartered for high treason and crimes against English civilians.

“Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.”

Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata"