It made me realise that maybe I should just do the things I want to do in life.

And maybe it is also an awkward worry—this worry of not being eternal.

Why is it so hard for us to grasp the fact that we don’t live forever, that it has an end?

Maybe it is causing us a lot of trouble while we live that we care so much about ourselves for when we are not alive.

— Balder Olrik

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