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I don't so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a date, or recalling laughter at my expense when I attempted some silly challenge. _Those things simply prove that I_lived life. _What I do mind, however, is looking back on the lost opportunities where imagined concerns kept me from even trying__ose or win. _I've learned that there is no regret in a brave attempt, only in cowering to fear.

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Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he__ going to scale Kilimanjaro because he can__ stop imagining the view from the top, the picture so arresting and beautiful that it too soon delivers him to a precarious ledge, where he can no longer turn back. And while it__ easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn__ this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?

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Chang-rae Lee

On Such a Full Sea

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Life is a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way each day.The thing is you head up straight. And when you make that choice. And when you decide turn your back to what's comfortable, and safe and what someone calls common sense. So, that's day one. From there, it's only get tougher. But make sure it is something you really want because the easy-way always be there to wash you away. Each step in life comes to a decision and take another. Now You are on your way but You fight against an opponent you can't see, but all you can feel among your heels. Feel him breathing down on your neck. That's you. Your fears, your doubts, your insecurity all end up as an enemy within. Remember life is royal battle between You and You.

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More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through space. In a way, I__ glad: this means perhaps 300 years and 364 days have passed, and tomorrow I will wake up. Sometimes after a cross-country meet or a long day at school, I__ fall into bed with all my clothes on and be out before I knew it. When I__ finally open my eyes, it would feel like I__ just shut them for a minute, but really, the whole rest of the day and half the night was gone. But. There were other times when I__ collapse onto my mattress, shut my eyes and dream, and it felt like I__ lived a whole lifetime in that dream, but when I woke up, it had only been a few minutes. What if only a year has gone by? What if we haven__ even left yet? That is my greatest fear.