On Preparing for the Future

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We always seek ways to prepare for the future. We save money to buy things we want to have and those we need to have. We go to school to land a good job after wards. Some buy a lot to build their houses on it later on. Others build good will to draw on it when the need arises. Talk of promotions, finding a job and even winning a PTA post.

Others even prepared for the penultimate: death. Buying pre- need plans was a taboo then. The mere mention of death is to be avoided lest it will come true sooner.

But now people a re more practical. It's even a truism that in big cities it's very expensive to die. Even in the barrios today it's not easy to die. Talk of the expenses incurred and you know what I mean.

From dust we are and to dust we return. But it's an act of responsibility to prepare for that eventuality.

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