And if it were a third of the distance closer to the sun, as is the planet Venus, the earth would become like an oven, for the temperature would become so high that even lakes and rivers would boil.Ħ Or, even though its distance from the sun is ideal, what if the earth didn’t rotate on its axis as it does every twenty-four hours? Suppose, like Mercury, it rotated only a little more than once during its annual trip around the sun. What would happen if the earth were in a different position? Well, if it were as far away from the sun as, say, the planets Pluto and Neptune, the earth would be like a big deep-freeze, far too cold to live on. Like a spinning ball, the earth travels through millions of miles of space as it circles the sun, 93 million miles (about 150,000,000 kilometers) away. Yet this planet we were born on and live on is truly an amazing piece of work. How did this amazing combination of things come about?ĥ It’s easy for us to take the earth for granted. Name some of the factors that make life possible on the earth. Yet there are a lot of things that people don’t talk about so much but that give us reason to look forward to the future with confidence. Some young people feel that, with the way things on earth are being ruined, there isn’t much of a future for them. These things may make you wonder if there is anything worth looking forward to. Our planet Earth is getting more and more polluted, its wildlife is being killed off, and there are food shortages and other serious problems. But today, what is there to merit our confidence?Ĥ We could spend a lot of time talking about the reasons for not having confidence. You can’t really be happy or make good progress on the road of life without confidence in what lies ahead. Confidence can have a lot to do with this.
If you’re afraid to go into the water, for example, you’ll never learn to swim.ģ So, too, with getting the best out of your youth. But if you were afraid you couldn’t make it, the jump may have failed, with unpleasant consequences for you.Ģ That is the way it is with so many things. HAVE you ever tried jumping over a bar in a high jump, or even over a fence or a wall? If the height was not too great, and you were confident that you could do it, you probably made the jump successfully. What does confidence have to do with whether a person will succeed or not? Why is it that a lot of people don’t feel very confident about the future? Why You Can Look to the Future with Confidenceġ-4.
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