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  1. Jun 2018
    1. Speaker has learned the true values in meaning of life, but realizes in the end it was to late, as his time has come to leave this world. Can all of these thoughts be the flashing thoughts it is said one goes through when facing death?

    2. I have learned that when a newborn first squeezes his father's finger in his tiny fist, he has caught him forever.

      What did the speaker mean with this line? When referring to begin caught, is he referring to falling in love?

    3. I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer fall in love when they grow old-not knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

      Love, not anything else, is our fuel to living a long healthy life. Speaker trying to correct beliefs of elders belief of loss of love when older. Love keeps our hearts warm and young.

    4. If God would bestow on me a scrap of life, I would dress simply,

      Reader is not asking for materialistic things, as he is comfortable with living a simple humble life, because the value in this life is realized by the speaker that wealth and success are not the real things that lead to a happy life.

    5. I would awaken when the others sleep.

      Again mentioning how we waste our time gifted on this Earth by sleeping. Realizing that as he will be having an eternal sleep soon, he wishes can stay awake and alive as long as possible.

    6. I know that for each minute that we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.

      The quote shows how the speaker does not want to take life for granted, as he sees that every second we have to live is a gift, and we must make the most of the time we have here on earth.

    7. I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope.

      reaching out to the audience, telling us that we focus so much on making it and becoming wealthy and successful when the true meaning of happiness is through the journey we go through while doing these things we love.