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A Modern Parable
Four Brothers With Seven Days to Live
When the Messenger of Fate appears, each must choose a path forward
One evening four brothers — Prym, Puck, Paco, and Pepi — came together to grieve the passing of their father. After a while, the conversation tilted towards their own mortality, and they began to explore their end-of-life wishes.
Prym pondered the uncertainty of it all. “How much time do any of us have?”
Puck blurted, “Yikes! I have 99 things yet to see and do, and my list keeps growing.”
Paco interjected philosophically, “Wait! Shouldn’t life be less about experiencing things, and more about making a difference — creating a lasting legacy?”
Pepi remained silent for a while before whispering cryptically, “Seeing, doing, creating — does it really matter in the bigger picture? Don’t the poets all agree that love is the answer? And as for the uncertainty of it all, would you act any differently if the exact date of your death were foretold?”
The conversation continued in this way with each brother’s stance becoming ever more engraved in their minds: Prym lamenting the randomness of it all; Puck wrestling with the importance of experience; Paco insisting creativity is the highest calling; and…
