This document reflects on life lessons learned in 2009. It encourages working hard for success regardless of results and being different. It notes that we don't always get what we deserve, we're all mortal, and too much of anything is no good. It also advises expecting the unexpected, doing our best with the time given, and not riding bears.
13. Always after a defeat and a respite, the darkness takes another shape and grows again. We wish it need not have happened in our time, and so do all who live to see such times but that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.