Age is a unique and priceless treasure that can provide wisdom and knowledge, which cannot be learned in university textbooks. This wisdom can only be accumulated by years of experience within our environment and an intimate relationship with our Creator. Our Creator has designed within us a mind-body that is special and unique to humans. When properly maintained, the human body is designed and uniquely structured to last for more than one hundred years. Some researchers and health care professionals have suggested that the reason we experience degenerative diseases, cancer, heart problems, and the like is that people are living longer. This could be true for a small percentage of our society. However, one-third of all cancers are preventable though a combination of dietary changes, adequate physical activity, and maintenance of appropriate body weight. Avoiding tobacco and alcohol could prevent an additional one-third of occurrences of cancer. It has been suggested that 200,000 of the 600,000 cancer deaths in the United States of America each year might be prevented if these recommendation guidelines were followed. When a person has a high fat diet, there is an enhanced effect on tumor growth. It has also been reported that dietary factors may account for 35 percent of cancer deaths. There is strong evidence between dietary fat and cancer. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

Citizens need to be better educated about health issues. Education could reduce the cost of health care within our community. Many of us search for answers through human experiences that elevate and unite our thoughts and feelings.  Words have much more power than we realize. If our words contain beauty, people treasure them. If our words contain pain, people toss them aside, but not until after they have dealt with what the word causes. “Evil words destroy one’s friends; wise discernment rescues the Godly,” reports Proverbs 11.9. Expectations are often shaped by what people say to us. When a person’s actions do not match their words, real problems arise and we start to question their sincerity. I am someone who holds sincerity very dear; I would rather be told that my company is no longer wanted that to be ignored. Why? Because being ignored or being fed platitudes makes me feel like I do not matter. I try to be upfront about this with people; after all, it is my responsibility to be honest about what I need from others. However, even this does not always work, which makes it even more hurtful when I am left to interpret the difference between someone’s words and their actions in my own way, without the benefit of hearing how they really feel towards me. Being trusted with the truth means that a person at least acknowledges me (even if they may not like me) and there is no room for confusion. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

Perhaps not everyone feels this way, and I am not advocating for unleashing one’s innermost venom upon others, but I think we underestimate how important sincerity is. Maybe that is because we currently live in a World that perpetuates insincerity in a myriad of ways. I was not sure how to respond, and so I am glad you wrote again. I truly did not mean to offend you. I do not have many women in my life. We found each other when I helped you out of a broken place, and you gave me comfort, but falling for you was my mistake. I held you high above everything else, and claimed you so proud and openly. When times were rough, I made sure I held you close to me. Remember when I kissed you so gently, your enthusiasm warmed my ice-cold heart; how brilliant and tender the moon was on that night. Your care arouses my gratitude. May we have a long and bright future. Do you recall the story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens? He was at the time 32, and trying to woo an unenthusiastic 22-year-old Oliva Langdon. He asked her to marry him, and she declined, but told Samuel that he could writer to her like brother and sister. Over 17 months, he wrote her about 184 letters, and when he returned to greet her and ask for her hand in marriage, she finally agreed and her father gave Samuel his blessings. As a wedding gift, Oliva’s father bought her and Samuel a house. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

 I have just gotten back from a ski trip to Ishpeming, Michigan, with a few friends, which is what made me think of that story. I got a letter from Harry. He has proposed that I sail over to England, go on a sort of valedictory tour of Britain with him, before sailing back to the States together. My philosophy on life has always been the same—stay focused on your goals, priorities, and work and have fun doing whatever you do—and I have remained true to that theme all my adult life. Nobody ever got anywhere in life doing what everyone else is doing. Nobody ever made it big by following the crowd. Leaders lead, followers follow. You cannot do both. People are always happier when they have more fun in their lives. Couples are happier in the relationships if they have the magic ratio 5:1 Optimistic to Pessimistic interactions. For every one disagreement, misunderstanding or hurt feeling, they need five good, affectionate, caring or fun interactions to counter balance it. As we all know, conflict is inevitable in long term relationships. We just need to be careful to not allow the conflict to erode relationship satisfaction. It is also important that couples prioritize their relationships. We need to know that we are there for each other and we matter. We also need to know that we can still enjoy each other’s company over the years. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

New experiences activate the brain’s reward system, flooding it with dopamine and norepinephrine—which are the same brain circuits that are ignited in early romantic love. If a life does not inspire you, is it really worth living? Really. Take a moment to consider that question. Is it not the entire point of life to be happy? To enjoy what you are up to? To feel fulfilled? Heavenly Father desires that we find true, lasting happiness. Our happiness is the design of all the blessings he gives us—gospel teachings, commandments, family relationships, temples, the beauties of creation, and even the opportunity to overcome adversity are part of our salvation. Salvation is often called the great plan of happiness. We are endowed with a remarkable capacity for sympathetic understanding and exemplary brilliance and clarity. The human soul is not merely the end product, but the goal of the great evolutionary process contrived by God. Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. Be honest with yourself! Virtue, conformity to standards, moral excellence, strength, and courage is its own reward. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

True fun activities are ones that are frivolously joyful. They have no agenda. And, they are things we do for the sake of doing them. Plus, they do not produce any other outcome, but to make us laugh and smile. Most people do not make fun a priority, though having fun is crucial. We tend to put our responsibilities and our survival needs first. However, fun is also a responsibility and survival need. If we never have fun, we will drain our levels of joy and happiness dry. Then become mentally drained, and the joy we experience from living our lives will dwindle. When we engage in fun activities that get us in the state of feeling good, our brain learns to activate the pathways that produce good emotions faster. The more fun we have, the easier it is for us to live in good emotional states we all crave. We are primarily spiritual beings, meticulously unfolding from sense consciousness to spiritual awareness to a higher expression of manifestation. Truth is a living whole which transcends the logical laws of thoughts. People who do the works of righteousness shall receive their own reward, even peace in this World, and eternal life in the World to come. God is faithful, and he will not allow us to suffer nor to be tempted above what we are able to bear; but with the temptation also makes a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. Most of us are happiest when we do not have a guilty conscience. The only way our suffering, struggling, anxious society can hope to prevent its moral ills is by recognizing the reality of sin. Former President Obama was on the news and said, “We do not need a messiah.” I totally disagree with that statement and the older I get the more important I realize that God and our relationship to God is. The “Everyone is doing it” morality which characterizes our public-business World is crippling people. We must believe in our personal responsibility to correct our individual transgression—the white lies, the petty cheating, the apathy which characterizes passive existence. If the concept of personal responsibility and answerability for ourselves and for other were to return to common acceptance and humans once again would feel guilty for sins and repent and establish a conscience that would act as a deterrent for further sin, then hope would return to the World. The path of faithfulness is a journey that connotes allegiance, loyalty, and adherence to promises. Sacred covenants are to be revered by us, and faithfulness to them is a requirement for happiness. When we are happy and having fun, our brain goes into creative states, naturally bringing innovation into our lives. We start to see things we have not seen before and new pathways of action become obvious. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

There is no resting place along the path called faithfulness. The journey is constant, and no lingering is allowed. It must not be expected that the road of life spreads itself in an unobstructed view before the person starting this journey. One must anticipate coming upon forks and turnings in the road. However, we cannot hope to reach our desired journey’s end if we think aimlessly about whether to go east or west. We must make decisions purposefully. Where is that sense of adventure I love so much? Where is that curiosity to see what is beyond the next peak, the wiliness to hurtle headlong into any situation if it means it may make you breathless for at least a moment? Babe, you must start writing again. Do not try to force yourself, but tuck a pencil and a square of paper in your waistband, so that whenever and wherever your muse returns to you, you will be able to stop and scribble it down. Genius is the activity which repairs the decay of things. I think if you get to writing again, that could be the thing to help you return to the normality that you crave. In any case, do not stop writing to me, no matter what. It may not be poetry to you, but I have never thought of your letters as anything less and I am waiting for the poetry. Only Heavens can boast of this poetry, for it is rarely heard of on Earth. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8