Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
I've always admired people who are over-prepared.
I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.