Three Questions for Your Consideration

First Question: In your mind, which of the following scenarios represents the most profound personal loss?

Is this it? You know that you possess something important and fragile and it is being slowly taken away from you but you do not know what it is. In a moment of clarity, you discover what you are losing and understand it is almost too late to stop the taker.

Or

Is this it? You have lived your entire adult life believing and pursuing something so marvelous and rare that others in this world choose to risk death each and every day to possess it and you feel it slipping through your fingers.

Second Question: What is being stolen?

Third Question: Who or what is the thief?

I have chosen not to answer any of the questions I have posed for you because I believe most of you take this word for granted but you do know it when you see it or think about it. I believe that some of you will probably know it but will not understand it until it is gone. Its loss to you and all who follow after you is something worthy of your consideration.

All I ask you to do is to think instead of accept.