QUOTE(Mad_Modder @ Jun 20 2008, 06:13 PM)

my father has recently died

i just need help on how to get over it
Being agnostic I can't stat for sure if God exists or not, but ain't atheist, I fiercely believe in the goodness as I believe in the evilness. Just I think evilness being our own imperfections and not something that guide mankind.
Otherwise I think goodness don't implies "being good" only, to me it seems a high level planning where knowing the adversities are the ways we better ourselves. The justice being in that no one can avoid these lessons.
And we are learning the lesson, we are far from being able to says mankind is a good 'creation' but if we look at our history we can see we are becoming more conscious of ourselves and the world we inherited from our ancestors, albeit we can't avoid the sadness by how selfishness and greed and blindness contributed to turn the world a ever worse one to ourselves.
But is not mankind itself what is being in ordeal, the humanity that is the focus. Bettering mankind is bettering man, each one that steps toward consciousness, solidarity and the light, does this both to himself as for mankind as a whole.
No word can express the feeling such lost you are experimenting. No word in itself can change this but the certainty this feeling will be substituted by another, more bearable though not less deep. I fear English don't have the word for "saudade" albeit the feeling itself is known for everyone in all world. It means a feeling of "missing" and in a way it mean not the missing, instead is a 'presence' not present. Mild but assuring.
Now the better is yourself striving at being someone your father dreamed you being. Being a father myself I know nothing can better we knowing our sons being yet better ourselves.
The better is you going ahead in the life, caring yourself, caring for the ones that are intimate and caring for everyone, in the order you deem better, as you can.