being a person
if you’re lucky, You spend your childhood being a person. Then you spend your adolescence and young adulthood being a Person and it sucks. The goal is to get back to being a person, in my opinion.
My greatest desire is to have lived
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I think we as humans tend to put more value in our lives than we should, and of course life is precious and limited and fast, but at the same time all a human is just a human. With their limitations, problems, chaos and everything else. The good and the bad.
The world makes us tend to believe our life needs to always be grander and more special and filled with all sorts of amazing things all the time always, more than we need to, it's more of a balance than anything.
Same with remembering our own mortality, it can push you to be anxious and fearful and feeling like you're on borrowed time, but it can also remind you that all of this is not as important as we make it out to be if we truly think about it.