Thread: What is in your cup?
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Old 10-29-2011, 10:13 AM   #16180
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I couldn't live that way. Perhaps I should say, I refuse to live that way. I do agree that this is a selfish way to live, but I've only got one life, and I want to live it, "to suck the marrow of life." I've watched too many 'give up loving and live with her...'

Life is meant to be 'lived,' and not, passed through. Henry David Thoreau said; "most men lead lives of quiet desperation." I prefer to live by another of his quotes, one that I'll paraphrase here "...I wished to live deliberately, ... and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." As I'm finding now in my latter years, life is just too short. While I wish that I hadn't made the mistakes of my youth, I'm glad that I wasn't forced to live my life enduring them, either by personal philosophy, religious convictions, or societal pressures.
May I say, I could not agree more? and I don't think I contradict myself

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