"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."
---Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
My friend's mother died this past weekend. It seems just as my new little sister was being brought into the world. The interwoven cycle of birth, life and death - the triple goddess in ancient Celtic belief- never ceases, never pauses to think..... In a world filled with so much death, I suppose it's up to the living to keep the balance. To actually live our lives...and ensure that others are able to live theirs too.
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