Ask yourself, am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? People in the abstract want to live a long time and then you look at how they spend their days and it's on some of the dumbest imaginable, right? They spend it gossiping. They spend it complaining. They spend it working a job they don't like.
Legacy is for everyone but you. This beautiful cemetery, this is for the people who loved those people. It doesn't do them any good. But what of the time they wasted? What of the wrong things they valued? You want to think about how you're spending your time now. Are you living now? Are you appreciating it now?
Creativity and talent and drive are not the only things that make authors. Writing is something that requires quite a lot of time and time is very expensive and the piece that you need to have that time is expensive.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
