live forever or die trying: not sure what this was advertising, but i saw it on a poster in the denver terminal along with a couple of glamourous and dramatically somber models.
a lot of us do just that. i mean, not live forever--never once has that been accomplished--but a whole lot of every generation seems to keep thinking they'll be the first to do it, because they'll do it right. so much time and energy drained into preparing for future life at the cost of the present.
we think we can store it up. we think we can deny life now and then have a huge surplus later that will satisfy our every desire and then some (because if it's all scrunched into a smaller time period then it will be super concentrated super life, right??) we’re working for more than just retirement; we’re working for the very life we're letting slip by.
unfortunately there are some things you can’t cash out on. some things are only there for a split second and then they are gone. be careful.
take a deep breath and be grateful. if you aren’t grateful now, you won’t be then. if you aren't living now, you won't be then.
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