{"id":12778,"date":"2013-08-06T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/israelsmith.net\/?post_type=iq&p=1454"},"modified":"2013-08-06T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:00:35","slug":"i-shall-not-die-of-a-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelsmith.com\/iq\/i-shall-not-die-of-a-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"I shall not die of a cold."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ISIQ-0217\"<\/p>\n

As I sit here, my nose dripping like a tap, my throat twinging each time I swallow, and my eyes watering for sleep, I contemplate my future goals.<\/p>\n

I consider if I shall fail, be struck down, incapacitated, by rhinopharyngitis. Or, by some freak chance, have my nose drop right off from excessive running, blowing and wiping.<\/p>\n

I wonder if this might happen before I achieve my magnum opus.<\/p>\n

And then I realise: it is already written! I have already achieved it!<\/p>\n

My wife and my two children, lights of my life all three, through their presence alone strike a mark onto the pages of history so indelible I cannot erase it despite my best convoluted efforts. What more could I ask or desire?<\/p>\n

The hardest work has already been done. They are alive, whole, perfect and complete.\u00a0They each fly their own course, navigate their own journey of success and failure alike. I can only watch, and guide, and enjoy.<\/p>\n

So now, with the pressure of my biggest achievement in my past, what adventures await?\u00a0What impossible dreams<\/a>\u00a0may I consider, what crazy visions might I entertain, for the remainder of my years?<\/p>\n

How might I live, so that, in dying, I am content to welcome the embrace of the void?<\/p>\n

Today’s quote is part aspiration, part respiration (hah geddit?) and mostly defiance:<\/p>\n

“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.” – Willa Cather<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope you, too, die of having lived.\u00a0<\/em>Compassionately, courageously, and completely.<\/p>\n

With love,
\nIsrael. xo<\/p>\n

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