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slash promo. Space Studio. Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Head Space. I hope you had a good

weekend. It's Monday morning and a few weeks back. I had a good fortune to celebrate my birthday and one of the nice things about my birthday is I get to share it with a very good friend of mine.

We were born in a similar part of the world. We were born on the same day,

about three hours apart, and we've grown up together. And I have the good fortune still of seeing

him on my birthday, on his birthday, our birthday. And as he walked in through

the gate the other day, he said, Brother, happy birthday, I can't believe we're still here. And it's an

interesting thing I think with birthdays, it's so easy as you get to a certain

age to start feeling maybe a little unhappy or uneasy.

It reminded me of an exercise we had to do at one particular monastery. We had to sit down with a piece of paper and a pen and make a list of all the people who had passed away in our life that we knew of.

And the idea of course was to focus sort of on this idea of mortality and to try to generate a sense of appreciation simply for being a life.

And as part of this exercise it got more sort of particular, I can't remember how old I was at

the time, some are in my mid-20s I think, but I had to make a list of everyone I knew

who had died under the age of 30.

And at first you kind of might think, well, probably can't be that many people.

But as I started writing, see there were more and more names and these weren't necessarily all people that I knew really well, all friends. You know, there were people from all kinds of different situations. There was a son of some friends of us, some family friends of us who passed away from leukemia at a very young age.

There was a guy from our school who was stabbed in a park.

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