Reason & Purpose
"In birth certificates it is written where and when a man comes into the world, but the reason and purpose are not specified."
This phrase by Anton Pavlovič Chekhov gives us a sense of how scary and, at the same time, wonderful it can be to come into the world.
Not knowing what purpose we are set for scares us, but it is also a range of possibilities that we can put into action with our strength and our will.
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