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From: hadeishi@husc4.harvard.edu (mitsuharu hadeishi)
Newsgroups: soc.misc
Subject: Re: The Open Road
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Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 13:25:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  8 13:25:09 1986
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In article <390@necntc.UUCP> jeff@necntc.UUCP (Jeff Janock) writes:
>[my father wrote this in the mid 1940's - he died last summer
> after fighting pancreatic cancer for almost two years. This
> was among his personal effects]
[quoting now]:
>     For various reasons, numerous boys and girls never give
>the subject a second thought  through all the years of their
>youth; some forget that when starting at  the  beginning  of
>the open road, from then on the motto is, "Stand on your own
>two feet".
> . . .
>It is either "do or die", "sink or swim",
>"success or failure".

	I do not wish to trivialize your father's experience,
however, I think his advice perhaps is a little extreme.

	The involvement with failure, the fear of death, the aversion
to sinking beneath the waves; is this not the source of cowardice as
well?  If you do not fear failure, you can do.  If you do not fear
death, you can live.  If you do not fear the sea, you can swim.

				-Mitsu