Everything must come to an End
Doesn't matter how hard you try, you will die someday.
From the moment life begins, it has become doomed to death,
How long does this entail? No one knows. Only time can tell.
Funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living.
Do not pity the dead, pity the living,
Because at least in death, you are no longer suffering.
Death is the only guarantee thing that we have in life.
People hate death because it's the most painful truth to the beautiful lie we call life.
So, stop wasting time on shit that doesn't even matter,
When you die, life as you know it will move on without you,
After you die, your footprints will wash away, and some poor bastard will clean out what was your home.
The existence that was once you will be no more.
Make the most of the little life you have now before it's too late.
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