Today is my birthday! It may seem morbid, but with
each year I'm more preoccupied with my own mortality. Like one of my
favorite fictional characters, I’ve become aware that there are probably “fewer
days ahead than behind.” There’s a chance that several items on my bucket list
will go unfinished. I suppose I should go through the list and weed out less
important items. “Climb Mt. Everest” is expendable. “Walk the Great Wall of
China” might be overrated. I don’t think of myself as old, but I already have
several friends who never got to blow out as many candles as I should today. Several
more were much older when they passed; and yet I felt they left this earth too
soon. To quote that same fictional character, “What we leave behind is not as
important as how we lived. After all . . . we’re only mortal.”
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