I recently had a conversation with a retired mechanic about fishing. I told him how I had all but given up as there were so few fish in the rivers nowadays. He replied to me " Well David, I have all the time in the world now Im retired to find those fish, so it doesn't bother me too much... " This was 4 weeks ago. Today is his funeral. He died of liver cancer and found out he only had 2 weeks to live just shortly after our conversation.
So whats the moral of this miserable little story ? And could this man have changed much if he had known his terrible fate ? The answer of course is NO, and that things were as they were. We like to think we would could all do with knowing our futures possibly, but in the end things just happen. Period. As I had a recent close call with a falling branch then I guess death is a subject that's raw and on my mind.
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