I first posted this a year ago tomorrow, and I expect a lot of you have already seen it. However, it’s something I believe fiercely, and it seems as appropriate now as it did then. Remember, we only get one trip through life*, so do it the best you can.
*Excepting, of course, Hindus and other faiths whose beliefs incorporate reincarnation. But even in those instances, you’ve still got a vested interest in getting it right. Nobody wants to come back as a flatworm.
By Tardsie
In which a conclusion is drawn, many “umms” and “y’knows” are uttered, and the author’s resemblance to Greta Van Susteren becomes painfully obvious.
Further Reading:
Mama said wisely, “A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.”
John Steinbeck
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Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What cannot be cured must be endured.
Old Maxim
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Promethean Times 
Oddly, the video didn’t play for me, though I remember all of your talks as being very entertaining.
Better to be a flatworm than a ringworm.
Right Vishnu?