Day you were born or days you are living?

Being up so early brings me back to my army days where I had to arise at four thirty in the morning to collect morning rations. I would wake up groggily and together with a platoon-mate, we would drag our feet to the cookhouse zombiefied to collect twenty-odd packets of food.

It starts me comparing between life then and now. Two different purposes, two different environments. Is it better to have a common goal or an individuual goal? Or both?

Each of us in the platoon had our own aspirations be it a graduate or employer or scientist or teacher. Yet, we all had the common goal to complete our army stint as soon as possible.

Have you ever wondered which is more important - the day you were born or the days you are living?

Most would say the day you were born becauuse without it there would not be days you are living. But what benefit did the day you were born provide, save for a slap on the butt?
Were you able to donate your tears, or counsel other newborns?

So then, I put it to you that yes the day you were born is important, but the days you are living is more important. It defines you, and others around you. Through it, you learn patience. and hardness, and wholesome development of your soul. You take on the lives of others and set and achieve aspirations and goals. Of what good use would the day you were born be, if you have been living as a drunkard or sluggard or more?

It is good to be born. It is better to be living.

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