In the spring of 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford University in which he said:
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.
I have believed this for a long time myself.
Careful readers (all two of you) might have seen my own "death clock" counting down every day at the very bottom of the side bar of this blog.
A true terrierman thinks like his dog: every moment of every day is NOW and the best way to spend the day (if not with family) is in the hedge.
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