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Jul282009

On Death

DateTuesday, July 28, 2009 at 02:29PM

 

I do not fear death. Rather, I regret the loss of the ordinary quantities of life – the never-read headlines, the coffee never made, and the sex that, for this reason or that reason, was never had. I do not regret the mountains never climbed and the fires never fought – I will have seen the view from peaks yet higher and extinguished flames more threateningly virile. I miss, in perfect prediction of hindsight, the small and mundane, repeatedly forgettable, joys of living.

 

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