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I am dying.
Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk.
It is a difficult thing to remember, especially while we are in the health and strength of our youth, and yet, I have come to know that is is an important thing to keep in mind-not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live.. Certainly I do not dwell on the reality of my own mortality, but i believe that a person cannot help but dwell, at least subconsciously, on that most imposing specter until he has come to understand, to truly understand and appreciate, that he will one day die. That he will one day be gone from this place, this life, this consciousness and existence, to whatever it is that awaits. For only when a person completely and honestly accepts the inevitability of death is he free of the fear of it.
-Drizzt Do'Urden.
I read that today, and thought id put it in here.
Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk.
It is a difficult thing to remember, especially while we are in the health and strength of our youth, and yet, I have come to know that is is an important thing to keep in mind-not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live.. Certainly I do not dwell on the reality of my own mortality, but i believe that a person cannot help but dwell, at least subconsciously, on that most imposing specter until he has come to understand, to truly understand and appreciate, that he will one day die. That he will one day be gone from this place, this life, this consciousness and existence, to whatever it is that awaits. For only when a person completely and honestly accepts the inevitability of death is he free of the fear of it.
-Drizzt Do'Urden.
I read that today, and thought id put it in here.