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You will lose everything in this world that you love. This does not mean, do not love, it means, love everything you love with all your heart at every moment. Live and love while it is present. Time is a gift in this world.
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Nobody told me November 10 is the Marine Corps birthday. So by noon I believed eleven strangers in South Dakota were born the same day.
It started at 7:40 a.m. on November 10, at a gas pump. A man of about seventy in a red cap said "Happy birthday" to a man of about twenty-five. The young one said, "Happy birthday, sir." They shook hands and drove off opposite ways.
A coincidence. I know a man who was born on the same day as his dentist.
At 9:15 it happened in the post office. Then in the hardware store, where one was a grandmother buying birdseed.
By noon I had counted eleven, though I may have counted the red cap twice. I worked out the odds on a napkin and ran out of napkin.
I found the red cap and asked his age.
"Two hundred fifty-one."
"And the young man?"
"Same."
His name was Hank, and he told me to come to the café at four. "There's cake."
Thirty-some people, one sheet cake. It had started to rain. Somebody read a general's message from 1921, which they read every year, about a day in 1775. Then a man in a gray sport coat drew a sword, indoors, and a waitress moved the creamer out of his way.
It was the first thing all day I understood. Where I come from, too, the blade comes out when the matter is important. I watched his grip. I had no corrections.
"First piece goes to the guest of honor." Hank looked around the room, then at me. "You're the only guest we got."
I held the plate with both hands and did not eat. Nobody had told me the rule.
The second piece went to the oldest Marine in the room. They read out his birth date: March 1934. He got up for it by himself, which took a while. Nobody helped him. The whole room waited.
He did not eat it either. He turned and handed it to the youngest, born in June 2004, who stood straighter for a paper plate than I have seen men stand for a diploma.
"Don't drop it," the old man said.
Neither birth date was November 10. I folded the napkin and put it away.
At 5:05 I was in the parking lot, still carrying my piece, when a young man in the same kind of red cap jumped out of his car and ran for the café. He had missed all of it.
I knew the rule now. I held out the plate.
"Happy birthday," I said. "Don't drop it."
He ate it standing in the rain and saluted me with the fork.
Benjamin retweeted
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Benjamin retweeted
how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??
cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.
goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.
monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???
birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.
there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.
squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.
and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???
your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???
the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.
I’M SORRY?????
we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????
how can you not believe in God when octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry all their lives, cows have best friends, bees have different "dialects" of dance depending on the region, cats purr at a frequency that accelerates bone healing, the forest grows flowers first after a fire, dolphins give each other names and respond to them, penguins make proposals by giving each other the most beautiful pebble, crows will tell their children about you, goats have accents, rats giggle when you tickle them, sea slugs become powered by the sun just by green algae and squirrels plant millions of trees every year just by forgetting where they've buried their nuts!
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Everyone thinks there is a magic pill out there that will fix you.
There isn't.
If god fixed you, everyone that prays would be perfect.
If psychedelics fixed you, everyone at a Phish concert would be mentally stable.
If therapy fixed you, everyone that goes would be mentaly stable.
It takes a tremendous amount of work, honesty and self reflection to change.
You have to look at yourself honestly, admit your portion of it and work to change it.
It takes years and personal sacrifice to do it.
Do the work, one prayer, one trip, one therapy session isn't going to fix you.
They are just tools in the toolbox and nobody is coming to save you.
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Healthy people sometimes look at someone with chronic illness and think:
“You didn’t even do anything today.
Why are you so exhausted?”
Because you’re measuring activity.
We’re measuring cost.
Imagine waking up every morning with $100 worth of energy.
A shower costs you $3.
Getting dressed costs $2.
Driving somewhere costs $5.
You barely notice the withdrawals because there’s plenty in the account.
Now imagine waking up with $20.
The shower still costs $3.
Getting dressed still costs $2.
The drive still costs $5.
Except now, before lunch, half your account is gone.
That’s chronic illness.
We’re not lazy.
We’re budgeting.
Sometimes we skip the shower because we need those $3 to make dinner.
Sometimes we cancel plans because we’ve already spent tomorrow’s money.
Sometimes you see us sitting perfectly still and assume we’re doing nothing.
No.
We’re trying not to go into overdraft.
And the cruelest part?
People with $100 in the bank keep giving financial advice to people trying to survive on $20.
You cannot judge someone’s spending when you have no idea what their balance was when they woke up.
