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Post by aqt on Nov 15, 2009 10:58:06 GMT -5
We do not choose to be born.
We do not choose our parents,
Or our times or country of birth,
Or the circumstances of our upbringing.
We do not- most of us- choose to die
But within all this realm of choicelessness
We do choose how we shall live-
Courageously or in cowardice,
Honorably or dishonorably,
With purpose or adrift.
We decide what is important and what is trivial
What makes us significant is what we do,
Or refuse to do.
We decide and we choose
And so we give definition to ourselves.
~ Joseph Epstein
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Post by mfromcanada on Nov 15, 2009 21:06:28 GMT -5
Nice poem.
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