They said, If you continue on this way, you’ll surely die —
and die, you did.
But I wonder:
if you had lived any way other than the way you wanted,
would you have truly lived?
We all die, don’t we?
But how many of us ever really live?
It’s plausible to think
that if you’d lived the way we all wanted you to,
you might have lived much longer.
Maybe.
Death does arrive like a thief in the night.
But even if you’d stayed longer — would you have been happy?
Maybe you’d have been like the rest of us:
breathing,
but barely alive.
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