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To Live or Not

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I did not bargain for life, life was given to me.Yet, if I fail to make good and equal life itself,then I am considered to be a failure, and not fit to live.Again, since I did not ask to live, I cannot complain of death.Why has life made our position so precarious as to make us want to live when we complain of not asking to be born?Life embraces a self-made, society-made double jeopardy.How did we fall for it?Tuy Hoa 6 Jul 1969 Written August 24th, 2001 © on Aug 24 2001 12:37 PM PST   0 • 1

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"I did not bargain for life, life was given to me.Yet, if I fail to make good and equal life itself,then I am considered to be a failure, and not fit to live.Again, since I did not ask to live, I cannot complain of death.Why has life made our position so precarious as to make us want to live when we complain of not asking to be born?Life embraces a self-made, society-made double jeopardy.How did we fall for it?Tuy Hoa 6 Jul 1969..."

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