Don’t forget you’re alive.

‘Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you’re in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we’re alive!

We don’t know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is.

This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that’s something I’m trying to bring to my attention at all times.

Don’t forget you’re alive.

We’re not dead, you know.

This is the greatest thing.

— Joe Strummer

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