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Originally Posted by halfpint
family is my no1 always has been always will be
no 2 hope for my kids to do well out of life
no3 be financially secure
no4 to die peacfully
no5 to enjoy life to the full
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Don't 4 and 5 conflict? This reminded me of something I once heard or read.. Basically went like this:
Most people walk through life being careful to avoid injury and to gracefully age into their elder years, then hopefully die painlessly in their sleep one night due to natural causes.
A special few run as fast as they can through life, doing as much as they can on the way, and hope to die having completely used up all they could of their body and mind, cut bruised scraped and bloody. Aging gracefully is the most uninteresting and painful way they could die! They'd prefer to die because their parachute didn't open, or they lost a grip on the mountain they were climbing or something.