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A MEDITATION

“ It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

— Marcus Aurelius

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On mortality

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A reflection

The real tragedy isn't dying; it's a life in which the person never actually showed up. Play it safe enough, delay enough, avoid enough, and you can die having never begun. That's the ending to fear.

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