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That's a paraphrase of what Alec Guinness said to Sessue Hayakawa as the two enemies stand on the completed bridge reminiscing, toward the end of BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI. Mortality awareness tends to alter perspectives and priorities. It has for me, at any rate.

Not trying to be morbid. I'm just of an age (66) when the certainty of dying begins to move from the back burner up to the front of the stove. None of us knows how we will go. Could be heart-attack, stroke, or accident-quick. Could be a slow slide courtesy of cancer (which took all my family)...