The fact that we die is a challenge to live while we are alive. To live like we mean it. With nothing held back. Why would we hold anything back? Why would we not do what the moment, the situation at hand, asks us to do? What do we hope to say, to gain, by not doing what is called for, here, now, the way it is called for?
We are to live here, now as though this is the moment we were born to live the way it needs to be lived. Every moment is our Oscar winning moment. We cannot forget our lines, flub our opportunity, our chance, to be what we are asked to be, to do what we are asked to do, where, when and how we are asked to do it, no matter what.
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