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I intend to live life, not just exist.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

You exist only in what you do.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.