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How to Elect the Most Important Candidate–and Why it Matters.
Vote for yourself.
by Erik Orton
One night my Mom came into my room and saw me making signs with markers on poster board: “Erik 4 Prez.” I made a dozen.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“I’m running for president.”
“Really?” she asked. “You hadn’t mentioned it.”
I shrugged and kept working.
I took the signs and a roll of tape to school.
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“She’d always believed in me, encouraged me. I could trust her with my dreams and hopes.”
― Seven at Sea: Why a New York City Family Cast Off Convention for a Life-Changing Year on a Sailboat
― Seven at Sea: Why a New York City Family Cast Off Convention for a Life-Changing Year on a Sailboat
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
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Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
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