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the people around you are going to die before you do--- the people you love, the people you hate & even the people that you haven’t quite come to any conclusion about--- they will all perish before you, because if you go, they go automatically--- and this isn’t new, or exciting, or especially thrilling to hear--- but it is something that we all know deep down in our own hearts & minds when we feel most vulnerable & most alone in this accidental world in which each one of us is an accident as well, but it certainly should shed some light on the value of our present existence--- it certainly should make us look around & see the faces of the people who know us best in this very moment--- the smiles & the frowns, the laughs & the tears which all come with our very human lives, illustrating the very essence of what it is to be alive amongst so much death--- and though all who we love & with whom we share our warmest occasions will disappear, their personalities will halt only in the fact that they no longer produce new material--- we are so fortunate to have shared a deep conversation, or an exchange of intimate thoughts with anyone in this short short life, so that when our family & friends have gone, we still walk in the library of their memory--- we still pull from the shelves volumes of words & actions which defined for us both sweet & bittersweet connections that now still illuminate our own heartbeats, our own thought processes & our every step, if we are so wise to not dwell in the inevitable sadness that these individuals are physically gone & to instead take them with us in our own journey while we still are breathing life.
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