What if life didn’t give you a chance?  What if you weren’t even a speck in your mother’s eye?  You would be nothing.  Because you exist, you have the responsibility to survive, to grow, and to be yourself.  This is the key – so many people try to change to suit everyone around them.  If you can continuously be yourself, you have a weapon – a strength and solidity – that many others do not have.  From this rock, you are strong enough to defeat your most persistant and resilient opponents.  Death itself even seems distant on the horizon.  However, what is infinitely more important is the fact that you have the ability to let certain things past your defenses and to take in their influence.  You can then apply yourself – all that you know – to these influences and have the wisdom to decide what will effectively change you and what will not.  This process is the single most effective way to learn from experience.  It is your responsibility to take your time here on Earth and systematically improve your own life through these experiences.  This is the meaning of existence.