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have to sneak into the office on holidays and wait for dusk to be able to get to the roof. One

day he had to visit the doctor regarding his health issues and the doctor said that if things go
the way they are right now, he won’t have much time left to get things in order.

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He started to question his choice of accessing the door. He started to compare a long and healthy
boring life to a shorter, richer, and happier one. He thought to himself “Should I continue to

add life to my daily routine by taking it out of this boring life or should I stop? If I don’t, I

would enjoy the time I have left, but I won’t have much of it left. The doctor says that I should
change if I want a good life, but what is a good life after all? Why measure life in years lived?”.

Questions like these came to his mind every so often and he had no answers.

One day, he entered the roof, and started to look at the stars, he started thinking, “How small,
how minuscule, how tiny, how inconsequential am I? In comparison to these endless arrays of

stars, and the deep blue sky. The deep blue sky, waiting every day to swallow the sun and all
life with it, to intoxicate the world and let it die for the night. As the world sleeps under this

blue sheet of death, it forgets its pains, its sufferings, its hunger, its diseases, its life. People

cling on to their dear lives throughout the day with all their might, and yet, forget so easily at
night, and sleep! If something can be forgotten so easily, then what is the point of chasing it?

On the other hand, there is satisfaction, that makes days memorable and nights dreamy, it is
what makes life worth living!”. “I will chase satisfaction and not time to live in my life!” He

exclaimed to himself, as he jumped off the ledge and into the hands of the wind, enjoying the

stars, living for eternity in the moment.

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