Life – Page 25 – Polojko's Blog!

Advice

Every day spend the last ounce of energy, and you’ll live a fulfilled life…

Lottery

A person starts playing games of chance when the situation in his life becomes hopeless. I just bought my first ticket.

Purpose

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at your own death – Robert Holden, Shift Happens

Hospitals

Hospitals, those vestibules of the Death.

Mission impossible

Starting all over again every once in a while is mission impossible.

Damnation

Damnation of living things: in order for me to live, something/someone has to die first.

Death

Technically, death always comes on time, ie. when the body is no longer able to function on its own.

Strategy

Burying one’s head into the sand doesn’t help. In the end, we all have to face the music.

And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived long—he has existed long. For what if you should think that that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about.

– Seneca, On the shortness of life

Procrastination

Procrastination is an unconscious wish to prolong life.