Dear None:

All you can do, None, is increase your chances for success and decrease your chances for failure. For example if you drive carefully, you increase your chances to survive the drive. But you may still die through the actions of a drunk driver through no fault of your own.

If you eat healthy and exercise you increase your chances to be healthy and live longer. If you eat badly and do not exercise you decrease your chances. But of course, as you know, people who eat healthy and exercise get sick and die.

And so it goes on and on, increasing chances for a good quality of life. No guarantees.

It is difficult to accept that there are no guarantees. Oh, how different life would be if we’d know things for sure.

Regarding evaluating people, if you do, you increase your chances for well being by making informed choices in regard to whom you get involved with and to what extent.

Chances, statistics- no guarantees.

anita