The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you an do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.
What excites you when you think about it? Follow that feeling. Because if it's not what you really want, you simply will not have the energy to succeed. . . . By doing what you love, you inspire other people to do what they love, and that ripple effect goes far beyond what you'll ever know.
I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don't take friends for granted.
But more than this I want to say that there is a kind of war which is inevitable to all --- it is thewar of life. A young man should always stand in his armor, with his sword in hand and his buckler on.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation, than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay