How do I change my personal goal for Relay for Life?

An interesting piece I wrote about CHANGE..(self esteem and life struggles). Is it good and motivational?

• One thing that makes me feel good whenever I'm feeling low is change. People choose to go on through life and suffer, but really, change is the only thing that's going to make things right. Change doesnt happen overnight, but it does happen. That's what Barack Obama's trying to do, and you see his struggles. The economy is in complete turnoil, and it's going to take a while before we get out of this rut, but I know that it's not going to be down forever. If we got through it with Jimmy Carter, of course we can make it this time with Obama. The world can be very unkind. There's so much hatred and anger, and there are days when I wonder when I'm going home. When I get out of bed in the morning, God has made it clear to me that it's not my time to go yet and that He still has tasks for me to fullfill. He's giving us an oppurtunity to become what we want to be, and He wants to bless us. I think that's why we still here today. To get through dark times, and "make the best of a bad situation", so He could reward us when our time is up. Throughout life, you're going to be hurt by other people. There's going to be people who's going to make you feel angry,sad, upset, disappointed. These are things that you must accept because you're dealing with the real world. Anytime you around other people, you're going to have a bad day. The only way to cope with this is to be courteous, be nice, and say to yourself "This is not forever". Because these are folks you may not be seeing in another 10 years. That's life, people will come and go. I've been hurt by a lot of people. I would sit and think about all the things these people had done and said to me that had offended me, and all types of feelings stir up: anger, grief, sadness, disappointments and sometimes depression. Everything could be going just fine, but I still find myself sitting around suffering from something that happened 8 years ago. As of today, the past still bothers me at times, and I'm still not in full recovery from the dark times, but really, there isn't anything I can do about it because I can't bring the past back. Whatever happened, happened. But in a way, I'm sort of glad those things happened to me because it gave me life experience. It gave me a sense of mind and it made me more aware of what's out there is this dark miserable world. When I'm older, I would know what to do and what not to do in the future. A dark past can create a bright future. If it happens to me again, I would know how to handle it better and say "Ok, I've been through this before, and got over it. I can get through this. This too shall pass" Happy people with perfect backgrounds will have trouble adapting to life struggles because they never had no experience. If you never been in a fight, you will have trouble defending yourself when you get in one. If you go bankrupt, you wouldn't know how to handle it. You'll probably commit suicide, from have trouble surviving, but those who has been broke before knows how to live and what to do. I truly believe that we are powerful and have the control to change ourselves and our lives. If something's wearing you down, get rid of it or change it. If it's making you feel bad, do something about it. One thing that I seem to notice is that nothing stays the same forever. With time, things changes everything, naturally. If you still thinking about that upsetting event, it'll only exist in memory, in your head, but in reality, in the outside world, it's going to fade away and people really wouldnt remember it. If you were a nerd in high school, nobody's going to remember that 20 years from now. Between graduation and today, people will be too busy focusing on their own problems and wouldn't even recognize you. I look at my situation. I'm a man working at a school cafertia. At times, I get down and discouraged, but really I don't feel too bad because I know this is not forever. Do you think I'm going to be serving the lunch line at 62? Do you think these little kids will be children forever? I would suffer over something that happened at middle school. One day, I had to go back to see my sister in a play. Now, in my mind, no matter how long ago it was, the past always seems like it just happened a minute ago. Back then, I was much younger, but when it replays in my mind, I feel like the way I do now going through it. But I came back and seen how young and small the kids were, and how little the hallways were and how some of the teachers aged and did not recognize me. That's life. Time changes as we go. I look at my job at UPS and feel a bit of discomfort. Right now, I can't see it but in 20 years, I will realize how young I was and how raggedy everything looked. There were guys that I used to be jealous of. I woul

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  HOW ARE YOU SO GREAT AT WRITING? this is AWESOME, and your other work about being jealous is so great......your something else man, you seem extremely intelligent. i wish more people were extremely open minded like you, you remind me of me in some ways., but you really know how to make a story,...this stuff is wonderful, i just wish i can speak my mind perfectly like you.