Trailing Tokens

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If you could choose a moment where you could have significantly altered your life, or the family into which you were born, would you take it? Would you risk the possibility of altered genetic history, long-term health, different educational standards and altered intellectual capacity? Would you choose wealth but a near-guranteed possibility of an autoimmune disorder such as SLE; or a progressive neurological disorder like Alheimers disease? How far would you be willing to go?

This is a recurring question


In my case, probably, but then again, to what end? My father was fatally wounded during the commission of a robbery, and my mother followed him 11 years later. Indeed, I would have wanted to alter that timeline, if only to have my parents around for a little while longer.

Then again, arises the question: death is inevitable, how much longer would their presence influence every decision ever taken after? Would their deaths have been any less unbearable? Maybe, maybe not, and probably that is why we should accept the temporal nature of life as is. That the light of life can be as temporary as candlelight in a barrelling storm. 

All said, one must not neglect the fascinating nature of life, despite its brevity. If you can travel, by all means, stop creating excuses. Experience life prior to marriage, or else the craving for experience will assuredly arise and shatter that illusion of security, for such is life. 

Let not religion take over your every waking hour because there is no heaven or paradise assured after this life. It is a guarantee that your body, if not immediately cremated, will surely at some point decompose and leave behind an ever diminishing stack of bones. Even mummification is no guarantee of immortality.¹ Live your life free of guilt, and enjoy it to the hilt without paying a weekly subscription to the merchants of guilt.

This will be a brief one, but so also is life. One year is now drawing its drapes shut, and another beckons, and the cycle continues.

Enjoy it while it lasts.









¹https://www.iceman.it/en/the-iceman/

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