Kill yourself before you die
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Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.
Seneca
Eight billion people walking on this earth, and how many of them know how to live? How many of them ask themselves what does it mean to live virtuously? How many of them are free from what is probably occupying their minds, like greed, desire, and fear? How many of us die each day regretful of the lives we’ve lived, the people we’ve hurt, the things we haven’t been able to do haunting us in our final hours just as much as the things we’ve wrongly done? Death is around the corner, and when it comes, it is your final test. Are you going to accept this inescapable fate with courage or cower and plead, wishing even for a minute longer, as if a minute longer will fix all of the havoc of your life that perhaps you never attempted to understand up until that point? To prepare me mentally, on the last night my father was alive, he explained to me that he was going to die within the week. In his final hours, he was still concerned if his son would make a solid landing in the world when the nest came falling from the tree. That’s how I wish to die, not afraid of what lies ahead and feeling sorry for myself, but concerned with fulfilling my duties to the world and to my children, to be all I can be for who I can be for.