Paige 446
Paige 446. That project might be to write a book, to raise a family, to see grandchildren grow up to watch a television series, to lose weight, or just get food from the fridge because you're hungry. These projects point us toward the future. Death deprived us of seeing our projects come to some sort of fruition, and engaging in fresh ones.
— from The Landing (Death) · Happy Why More or Less by brown
In the book
A unifying purpose will not make the flight easier — it will, in fact, carry you into all kinds of unexpected weather — but it gives the whole journey a meaning — the family, the work, the people who will fly after you — larger than any single day inside it. The projects worth giving your hours to are the ones that point beyond the moment: to write the book, to raise the family, to watch the grandchildren grow. Whatever weather comes, one must always affirm life and its unfinished possibilities, whether they arrive pleasurable or painful. — The Landing (Death)