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This I Believe
What I Truly Believe
I believe in many things here are some of them. I believe songs are talking with emotion and meaning, not just great voices. I believe there is a heaven; to me it is life. I believe when our world ends, it won’t be a sad moment, it will be a memorable moment if we could forever remember. I believe we take everything for granted, not knowing what other people do not have. We forget that our $50,000 dollar house may someday be a shelter for homeless children, or maybe that bottle we threw on the ground yesterday will be picked up by a caring person who will recycle it for good use, or even that that old bike we have in our shed may give another child the joy you had when you got it. I believe there will always be evil people, but never evil hearts. Someday soon our world will be a happy place again, that is truly what I believe.
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