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Posted by PanaceaSanans (Member # 13395) on :

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Even if you heal a hundred sick people every day, and move on to the next place and heal a hundred more, there'll be ten thousand people who die behind you, and ten thousand more ahead of you, and by the time you die even the ones you healed will almost all be dead.

Don't mind my heart breaking a little...

The last part really got me. Stupid of me, but I truly never thought of that before. Maybe I should have chosen pediatrics after all... Then again, what does it matter, really, whether they die before or after me? Each tale will end with the grave no matter what any of us do today.

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

That doesn't mean you don't try anyway!

Posted by Elcheeko75 (Member # 13292) on :

I would guess you don't bother healing people to keep them from dying, but rather to keep them alive. It's the days or years of life (or improved life) you allowed that is the value of a doctor's work, not the death you delayed.

Maybe it's cheesy semantics, but I'll keep going to the doctor because I want all the days I can have with my loved ones. I hope my doctor is on the same page.

Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :

Humans are all the more beautiful for how brief and delicate their life is.

Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :

Remember, the only way to achieve world peace and end all the suffering tomorrow, is to launch all the nukes at ourselves today.

Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :

Not true! We Need a fake alien attack...and then the "casualties" get shipped off to colonize another world. A common enemy is as uniting as nuclear glass

Posted by PanaceaSanans (Member # 13395) on :

@Synesthesia: I agree. I'm trying. [Smile]

@Cheeko: Valuable thought. Thank you.

@Wolf: I believe there would be more glory in a little less fragility...

@Darth: Now that's a brilliant solution. [Big Grin]

And another truth that hurts.

Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :

You can choose to celebrate the sand mandala that is human existence or not, your attitude does not change reality, just your perception of it.