A sincere thank you to everyone who has participated. This thread has changed me in ways I hope to learn from and apply from today forward.

I'm sorry everyone can't feel or find the way to use it's discoveries. Sometimes the harder we try to avoid the hole, the deeper we find ourselves rooted there.

For me, this experience symbolizes a drama mankind has found himself in repeatedly for eternity. Faced with adversity, confronting "the dragon", and in some cases, overcoming.

Pain is not a new concept to the theory of existence. It's been shared by every generation in history. We could look back at mankind's progress and see a slow and steady progression of dealing with strife, overcoming, and returning again to the battlefield for the next confrontation.

As it always has been and possibly always will be. The conditions surrounding us today are nothing more than our inheritance in this war against oppression and indiginity. Our children will be faced with the same decision of whether to pick up arms and fight for their own individuality or suffer the same fate many of us have. What's important to realize is that it's never too late to play a part to make today and tomorrow a better world for ourselves and our neighbors.

This is the end of this thread, but the beginning of the rest of our lives. We all have choices.

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall." Confucius