Live to be alive

It's an interesting message from Edward Readicker-Henderson. It's a Tedx Talk from Maui titled Kill your Bucketlist.

 To provide a bit of context. Edward, as we are told, has been told he has only a year to live, fifteen years ago. And he's been told this several more times throughout that period. He travels as sort of a rebellion against death. And he gives quite an insight:

 "I can tell you, I've never been over the edge but I've been right up to it a number of times. And the view from there, you don't care that you ran with the bulls, or swam with sharks. You care that you have never been too much of a coward to say "I love you" when it needed to be said. You care that you said "thank you" way more often than you said "please." 

 Your bucket list is a please. "Dear world, please give me these things. I promise i'm going to make them matter." But if you ignore the bucket list, If you just live to be alive. You'll find out. There's no reason to go shopping for coffins one minute early. You'll find out that inside of trying to drop things in your bucket list. You'll find that the world is pouring things into it. Everything is coming into it. And it's just overflowing. And so that all you really have to do when the time finally does come is let go of it and say "thank you".

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