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My 30 Second Speech to the World
Stop settling and start living, because this is it. Forget monotony and everything everyone expects of you, because it’s your life. Someday, you and all those who judged you will be dead, and you’ll be stirring in your grave wishing you’d realized anyone who thinks badly of you was as dead to you then as they are now. Jealousy is the most common cause of dislike, and anyone who tries to knock you down is jealous. You are alive, and they are not. Why would anyone alive waste their time on anything but running after their heart’s desires? Forget expectations and remember what YOU want. What they say is not important – what you want is. So, tell me: will you be remembered as changing the world, or as being a gravestone?
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Thank you for reading it! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
And yes, that quote is quite wonderful. And true.
This is what I would say.
(I timed it, for the record. I can say it in 23 seconds.)
"It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to."
--Alex Grey