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