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What is to need?

Who are we to say we need something? Who are we to say we need to even do anything. My friends, the only reason we “need” anything anything in this world is based strictly on consequence. We simply choose the path most traveled because we fear consequence. For instance, you dont have to go to school, only be willing to have no education. You dont need a car, just face the fact that u wont be able to travel anywhere. You dont have to eat or drink, only be willing to face death with a heart of steel.
My friends, there’s only one thing we absolutely need to do in this life, and that’s to die. We need nothing material when all is said and done. But without this material, we seem to suffer. It just shows the weakness of the human race. We overcome this material with untangible feeling, belief, love. Our souls are the only relevant variables in life’s complex equation when we die…

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