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COLLOQUY
 THE QUESTION
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This is my first semester at a university. I am not the brightest person you will ever meet but every day I ask myself what I make myself come here for. There has to be an inner purpose, not just a raise in salary that makes me strive to accomplish something in this life. What the professors have presented to me as motives (success, fame, wealth, etc.) don't even come close to answering this question. One day I will die and I'll lose all of it. Even a family would be lost to death. Therefore, professors' lectures leave me with a loss of vision. In Proverbs (I don't have my Bible right now so I'm not sure of the verse) it states, "Without vision the people perish." That could possibly be why the young man chose to take his life -- he couldn't find a reason to keep it. Where could he have found a reason to live? Only in Jesus, who gives eternal life, peace, and joy if we choose to accept it. Without Him, you can live a meaningless life or not live at all. That is the only answer to this kind of problem.
-- Erin Guesno, student at Cal State Long Beach (posted 11/13, 2:00 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)
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