it's funny you should mention your health
A couple days ago, I discovered this self-written obituary online. The woman in question, Jane Catherine Lotter, was an author and, dying from cancer, she took the time to put together a measure of her own life. Now, the whole thing was fairly interesting, a bit sad (obviously), but a section that stood out in particular: I believe we are each of us connected to every person and everything on this Earth, that we are in fact one divine organism having an infinite spiritual existence. Of course, we may not always comprehend that. And really, that's a discussion for another time. So let's cut to the chase: I was given the gift of life, and now I have to give it back. This is hard. But I was a lucky woman, who led a lucky existence, and for this I am grateful. I don’t think that first bit is literally true, but I think that operating in our daily lives as if it were makes us better people. The general consensus about Groundhog Day is that this is exactly the kind of thing Phi...