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Nelaiķa runa

Posted on 2011.10.06 at 09:01
Doom: 1955-2011
Mūza: Antonín Dvořák
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    When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

    Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

    No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

    Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.



Comments:


psihs
[info]psihs at 2011-10-06 09:54 (Tipa)
es vakar skatījos viņa interviju
psihs
[info]psihs at 2011-10-06 09:56 (Tipa)
jocīgi, jo nemaz nezināju, ka viņš ir beigts
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[info]nefolk at 2011-10-06 11:03 (Tipa)
es izlasīju pie [info]rasbainieks
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[info]mindbound at 2011-10-06 12:14 (Tipa)
"And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life." - par šo frāzi es neietu uz viņa bērēm pat tad, ja man par to maksātu. :P
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[info]nefolk at 2011-10-06 12:18 (Tipa)
Nu bet tu jau esi lohs, es gan aizietu, bēres ir cool
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[info]mindbound at 2011-10-06 12:20 (Tipa)
Tās, uz kurām esmu bijis, nav īsti pavilkušas, acīmredzot.
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[info]mindbound at 2011-10-06 12:22 (Tipa)
Anyway, ne jau par viņa bērēm ir runa, bet par to, uhm, pro-death attieksmi. No otras puses, varbūt viņš to rakstīja brīdī, kad bija pārlieku vēža & shit nomocīts, who knows.
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[info]nefolk at 2011-10-06 12:26 (Tipa)
Tu nudien esi lohs, jo runa nav arī par to, bet motivāciju (rīkoties, nevis mirt)
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[info]nefolk at 2011-10-06 12:28 (Tipa)
Piesienoties vārdiem ārpus konteksta, tu tikai apstiprini stereotipu par filozofu aroganci. Go play elsewhere, boy
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[info]mindbound at 2011-10-06 12:34 (Tipa)
W/e.
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[info]nefolk at 2011-10-06 15:47 (Tipa)
Tu esi garlaicīgs
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[info]nefolk at 2011-10-06 15:49 (Tipa)
Ar visām savām allegedly enciklopēdiskajām zināšanām... nahui tev visur jālien ar savu post-humāno apsēstību? Kas tas ir? PR? Gaužām neveiksmīgs, jāsaka
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