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Deep Thoughts (Not Breaths)


Minath Khalsi

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It's been a while sense I posted on here, but I was browsing through the internet and I stumbled upon something that made me think, and kinda want to cry.

 

It's a quote, only 30 words, but it's message could take a thousand to get through. I'm not going all poetic here, but just think about this as you interact with people without a second thought.

 

"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at your end, you're the one smiling and everyone else is crying."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

This has been making me think of all the people I've screwed over, but also of all the people who would be crying. As a past suicidal, this quote makes me never want to venture down that road ever again. It just makes me think, I could make so many more people miss me when I'm finally out of their lives. But they would miss me because I had touched their life in some way. I don't want to make them cry at my funeral, but I want them to reflect on why they're crying. They're crying because I meant so much to them they don't want to bear the thought that I won't be there for them anymore.

 

I'm probably getting way too in depth of this quote. But at the moment I don't really care.

 

So all I can think of as I read this quote over and over, is how I can touch way more people's lives. If I can do that, then I think I might just have a reason for living.

 

Here's the original picture that got me thinking all this.

 

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Well, if I somehow outlive you and make it to your funeral, rest assured that I'll be crying for all the right reasons. But... let's try to make sure that doesn't happen anytime soon.

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