Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding in life is to…

Inspiring tombstone message
Life is not a dress rehearsal… live like we mean it.

 

Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding in life is to, um, well… basically…

To fear death is to misunderstand life.

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Can the best summer ever and death go together?

super heros
it’s not like we’re super heroes or something

Can the best summer (ever) and death go together? It depends, right? Youth should be exempt from death. The rest of us? Not so much. Making it incumbent on us to live purposefully.

Is it possible to live in the moment, as if tomorrow may not come? To basically not put off until tomorrow that which can be done today.

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Here’s what I’ve learned by talking openly about death

life is not meant to be lived in a caged, trapped

Following is a bold thought. And perhaps, the best one on why death ought to occupy our conscious thoughts. A lot.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.  – Seneca

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Harvest What You’ve Sown

Florida Orange Groves take years to produce a crop…

Winter’s on the down side. Many places call it Spring Fever, and people go on Spring Break…to celebrate, have fun, to break from life’s burdens…

But in life, Winter is death. And death will come to us all.

And it’s what we do with our remaining years – starting this very day – that will signal our celebration, our break, our victory over burdens.

And it starts with the smallest of changes.

Who’s in?

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What Makes You Feel Old?

51 Does Not Feel Old
51 Does Not Feel Old

Mid Life – like birth, childhood, adolescence, leaving home, getting married, having kids, empty nest, retirement, death – midlife fits in there as one of life’s major milestone categories.

For the sake of argument, of course, not everyone gets married or has kids, but it is the most common way to continue our species.

In life’s stages, when and where did you start to feel old?

For me, it was four major things:

  1. Getting AARP welcome letter in 2009 (age 50)
  2. A dangerous cholesterol report in 1999 (40)
  3. Identifying our legitimate disability in 1996 (37)
  4. Buying the first pair of reading glasses 1995

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