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Tom Croce

Beat the Death

A man standing alone in a desert

A friend once told me: "To love means to give life to the other, but in order to give life, you must first have it, life."

It is not true that death is the last word, especially if the death is not yours but of the one next to you: you can give life back to the one who has died, only that first you must be alive yourself.

What a bummer.

It all seemed so beautiful when you were a child, when on Valentine's Day you would bring a box of chocolates/a stuffed bear to the girl you liked (and regularly got rejected), before your parents stopped seeming like a prince and princess and started seeming like the king of assholes and the queen of pain in the ass.

Today, at 25 years old, we struggle so much to love, that being gallant is just a distant longing, like taking a trip to Japan or quitting your job to live off art.

#adulthood #death #life #love #nostalgia #perspective #struggle