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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1075375" data-attributes="member: 5100">Man, I'm a huge believer in the "Say unto the mountain, 'move' and it with move," school of thought.  Honestly, though, if you don't buy it, it matters not a hill of beans what I think.The simple fact of the matter is that, regardless of what comes in the next month, year, week, whatever, you ain't dead yet.  You may not be able to do a bloody thing about your body, but you aren't your body.  _You_ are your mind, and you are in complete control of that.You aren't in the ground yet, so don't act like it.My beliefs tell me that life is all about the end.  Throughout our entire lives we are shaped and tested and wrought.  The truest measure of a life well lived is what we are at the end of it all.  Basically, what do you know and what wisdom you've accumulated by the time the "final exam" rolls around.It's that attitude that saw me through last Christmas season when I was laid off (sole breadwinner in the household), my grandfather died (the man after whom I'll name my first son, and the only person I've serious considered naming any of my kids after), and prenatal tests told us that our daughter would have Down syndrome (false positive, but no less stressful  -- not a terminal illness, but definitely a life-changing proposition), all within 10 days.We're _all_ going to die sometime.  This life is by its very nature temporary.  Someday, death will separate my wife and I.  And my close friends, too.  It's even possible that I'll have to bury one of my own children.  Or that I could be in a car crash tomorrow and never hear my youngest's first words.  Does that mean that I shouldn't put some effort into those relationships?  No!  Does it mean that there is no value in my actions?  No!The only difference between us is that you have a reasonable guess and how (and maybe when) it will come.  Your actions now have no less meaning than mine do.  So, tell me.  What are you going to make of yourself before it's all done?</blockquote>

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