Hello world.  Does that seem appropriate in this case?  Regardless, I say hello to you, reader, and wish you a good morning and a good evening tonight.  Speaking of evenings, yesterday I came across an interesting little tidbit of information, it got me thinking, which does not happen much.  It was an article (talk) written by Dallin H. Oaks entitled: "Focus and Priorities".  One thing he mentioned towards the end that made me take a metaphorical step back was when he quoted someone who said that there are three things that can never be recovered:  "Three things never come back- the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity."  I was a boy-scout, so I used to shoot arrows all the time, and I always get them back, but, I think this more refers to Legolas and his seemingly infinite quiver.  The spoken word, once you say something, you can never unsay it, unless you're in Men in Black with that device that wipes people's memories.  That might come close to the same effect.  But lastly, and greatest of them in my opinion, is the lost opportunity.  Unless you have a time machine, you cannot give yourself a second chance to do something you should have already done.  This is not the case with character and behavioral attributes, repentance (if that word confuses you, let me know in the comments so we can discuss it) covers that.  These opportunities are the deeds like saying hello to a stranger that needs it, calling your sister when she is in need of comfort (on a side note, my sister is currently in labor, about to have her son in about an hour), or taking that job in Los Angeles!  The most important of these (because I mentioned my sister) to me are the opportunities with family.  We are not here very long, in fact, in average it's about one hour and forty seven minutes to God.  Half the time of taking a final, and about the same time as a Book of Mormon midterm.  So, to get my point out there, I support Oaks in his saying of spending the time with our family wiser.  My family loves to watch T.V. with each other, but, there are other things such as Scripture Study that we could have put a lot more time into, even going to the park is a better way to get to know your family than watching T.V. So, to you, my readers, if you are just starting a family, take his advice, don't lose the opportunity to have the best relationship with your family you could ever have.  Thank you.