This is Optimal Living Daily. Find what you love and let it kill you by Mark Manson of

markmanson.net. And I'm Justin Mollick. I read to you every day of the year with permission from the

authors and then with a little commentary at the end. In today's article might be a bit darker

than what I typically read, but I thought it had a good message. So with that,

let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

Find what you love, and let it kill you by Mark Manson of markmanson.commonson.com.

Quote, we're all going to die, all of us.

What a circus.

That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't.

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities.

We are eaten up by nothing.

End quote.

Yes, we're all going to die, you and me, and everyone else.

One day and eventually that fateful moment will come calling and take us all away.

When we die isn't even really the interesting question,

as once you're dead you won't be around to care about what you did or didn't do.

No, the interesting question is how we die.

Will it be cancer, cardiac arrest, anthrax attack,

choking on a pretzel? Me? I'm holding out for parachute failure, or maybe a plane crash.

Okay, not really, but sometimes when I'm on a plane and we're landing and there's terrible weather,

I start daydreaming about what a crash would be like,

the oxygen masks falling, women shrieking, babies crying. Maybe I'd reach across the aisle and hold a stranger's hand in a final traumatic gesture as we wait for the inevitable together.

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