What matters to you defines your mattering.
What's the meaning of life? Other people.
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.