If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.
Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.
If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.