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Here's a story I've heard of three construction workers who are standing in a row next to the

traffic and they're all carrying signs.

The first one has a big stop sign.

The second one has a sign that says, smell the flowers.

And it's carrying a bunch of flowers in her hand.

The third has a sign that says, okay, resume tearing through your life like a maniac.

And coming to a traffic stop and seeing that.

I think that many of us have a sense of racing through our lives.

And sometimes on a more sobering note, I'll be meeting with someone, I'll say actually

it's one of the real feelings of despair is skimming the surface and racing to the end

line which is we're gone but not really dropping in.

And certainly we all know days or weeks or months when we're doing that.

When we're kind of continually on our way to something else, but we really don't settle

and there's not a sense ever of, oh, this moment, okay, this is it.

And I often think of the teaching from one pay lead of care giver who describes thousands

of people being with them at their deathbed and them talking about their greatest regrets.

And one of the greatest regrets was I didn't live true to myself.

I lived according to the expectations of others or according to my own judgments and

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