Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A sense of personal exception to mortality is shattered by the reality of death.
- In plain terms
- I thought I might not die, but now I face the same fate as others.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that death comes to everyone eventually.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What remains if you are not the exception?
- How does this change your priorities?
Another view
Some people do escape death for a long time.
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