I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.
It is natural to die as to be born.
We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.
I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.
Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
You just are born the way that you're born.
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.