Observation #125
I realized there is a fundamental difference between how I approach life and how other people approach life. One of these contrasts was recently made vividly clear between and friend and I.
It turns out her greatest fear is dying tomorrow. That she'll regret a lot if she suddenly ceased to be. She has many things she feels she must accomplish in order to fulfill her soul.
I, on the other hand, have no fear of dying this very second. I will regret nothing I have done, and I have nothing I feel I must accomplish in order to achieve fulfillment. Instead, I greatly fear living to be 100 years old. I fear being unable to financially or physically support myself. Being alone and isolated. Being without peers and family and lost in a world I can no longer keep up with.
It turns out her greatest fear is dying tomorrow. That she'll regret a lot if she suddenly ceased to be. She has many things she feels she must accomplish in order to fulfill her soul.
I, on the other hand, have no fear of dying this very second. I will regret nothing I have done, and I have nothing I feel I must accomplish in order to achieve fulfillment. Instead, I greatly fear living to be 100 years old. I fear being unable to financially or physically support myself. Being alone and isolated. Being without peers and family and lost in a world I can no longer keep up with.