Arriving At An Acceptance Of One's Mortality

In The End, People Don't View Their Life As Merely The Average Of All Its Moments-which, After All, Is Mostly Nothing Much Plus Some Sleep. For Human Beings, Life Is Meaningful Because It Is A Story. A Story Has A Sense Of A Whole, And Its Arc Is Determined By The Significant Moments, The Ones Where Something Happens. Measurements Of People's Minute-by-minute Levels Of Pleasure And Pain Miss This Fundamental Aspect Of Human Existence. A Seemingly Happy Life Maybe Empty. A Seemingly Difficult Life May Be Devoted To A Great Cause. We Have Purposes Larger Than Ourselves.

I Chose Surgery Because I Thought That Perhaps This Would Make Me More Like The Kind Of Person I Wanted To Be.

You May Not Control Life's Circumstances, But Getting To Be The Author Of Your Life Means Getting To Control What You Do With Them.

One Of The Consequences Of If The Affordable Care Act Is Repealed, Is That All Of Us Now Are At Risk Of Being A Preexisting - Of Having A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen. Life, Increasingly, Is A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen, Now That We Have More And More Of This Data Available.

Developing A Skill Is Painful, Though. It Is Difficult. And That's Part Of The Satisfaction. You Will Only Find Meaning In What You Struggle With. What You Struggle To Get Good At Next May Not Seem The Exact Right Thing For You At First. With Time And Effort, However, You Will Discover New Possibilities In Yourself-an Ability To Solve Problems, For Instance, Or To Communicate, Or To Create Beauty.