Leo Buscaglia is a popular professor at the University of Southern California and a best-selling author. He teaches courses in love, and his classes are packed every semester. He writes books that are very helpful in the hope and the guidance they offer. I’m told that at the start of a semester professor Buscaglia always assigns a paper where the students are asked to answer one question: “What would you do if you had only five days to live?” They say that the answers are very interesting, and you can imagine what some of them would be. “I’d say I’m sorry.” “I’d say I love you.” “I’d say thank you to my parents.”

The students turn those papers in but when they get them back, they’re not graded. Instead, Dr. Buscaglia writes in bold letters across the top of the paper. “Why don’t you do it…