Wake me up for breakfast, if I'm not dead.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker treats waking for breakfast as a sign of continued life.
- In plain terms
- I hope I will be alive tomorrow morning.
- What can you take from it?
- Routine plans assume you will survive the night.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What simple thing marks survival?
- How do you face uncertainty?
Another view
Tomorrow is never guaranteed.
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