I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
Tupac ShakurRead
I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
Interpretation
Life is about enjoying moments, not just focusing on work and earnings.
Owen Hart reflects on the hustle and routine of a wrestling career, emphasizing the importance of pausing to appreciate life rather than merely going through the motions for financial gain. He acknowledges the tendency to become so engrossed in work that one may overlook the joyful experiences that life has to offer.
In practice
In a motivational speech to emphasize the importance of work-life balance.
I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.
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