Ned VizziniAnd I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Dying is scary. It’s the end of the line for this side of life. There’s nothing left to do but go back and that’s when everything starts falling apart. These are the moments when you realize that you could have died right then.
You could have died in the blink of an eye. When you think about it, there are all sorts of ways to die. There are all sorts of ways to die in seconds, minutes, hours, days or years.
That’s when you start thinking about all the people who will miss you when you’re gone. When it comes time for someone to track down all your friends and family, there will be no one left to say good-bye to you. There will be no one who understands what you did or why they loved you so much.
All that stuff happens well after you’re dead. And if the world doesn’t stop spinning, after a while it feels like you’ve only just begun to fall As soon as you realize what death is, it’s already too late to back out. If Nelson Mandela had died immediately after he was captured by the South African police in 1962, apartheid would have gone on as it always had and his life would have been measured by a few years of jail time and some bad press surrounding his trial for treason instead of being remembered as a man who stood up for his beliefs against those who oppressed him for years on end so that he could live out the rest of his life as a free man with a family and a chance at a happy future
Source: Its Kind Of A Funny Story
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