When you live as long as I have, you tend to learn a few things. It's not just the information you learn in school: science, math, history. No, you learn a lot more about life—lessons that can only be taught and fully comprehended through experience.

But, there eventually comes a point when these lessons, these experiences, all fade together: the next just being a variant of a previous one. Day-to-day, becomes routine—uniqueness of each day slowly rotting away like the skin on my bones. And, through all of the lessons I've learned: one in particular has always stood out. It was always there, it didn’t take me more than one lifetime to discover it, but it took years upon years for it to finally sink in, and become undeniable.

That lesson: Everything will eventually come to an end.

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