Humanity, The way of life can be free and beautiful part 3

You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful...
Corporal Yukio Araki, age seventeen, holding a puppy with four other young men of the 72nd Shinbu Corps the day before their departure on a Kamikaze mission in Okinawa.

...to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Boy running after his father in New Westminister, Canada on October 1, 1940.

We are all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices.
A starving boy and missionary.

Some are on a grand scale...
Man stuffing flowers into soldiers' guns.

...most of these choices are on lesser points.
Christians protecting Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 riots in Cairo, Egypt.

But we define ourselves by the choices we have made.
Alcoholic father with his son.

We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices.
Couple found embracing in the rubble of a collapsed factory.

Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly.
Woman crying amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami in Natori, Japan, March 2011.

Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation.
12 year-old Brazilian boy Diego Frazão Torquato, playing the violin at his teacher's funeral.

It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe.
Sunset viewed from Mars. (Titles compiled from speeches made by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator and Professor Louis Levy in Crimes and Misdemeanors.)