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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 become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic , but it is quite true.Just live the moments ,follow your heart and intuition.Everything else is secondary.

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Life's change agent indeed. Thanks for reading and for sharing such a thoughtful perspective! I appreciate the dose of radical acceptance. It's something I usually strive toward. Sometimes the discrepancy is knowing something logically, but feeling hesitant to bypass all that we're not done feeling yet. Which, of course, makes us the arbiter of our own dissonance and the conductor of our own suffering.