Six blind men

Six blind men endeavor to describe an elephant and variously determine that the elephant reminds them of a rope (tail),
tree (leg), snake (trunk), spear (tusk), fun (ear) and a wall (body) by the Elephant Story of Phil Shapiro
Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who
have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated
of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved
whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it – so at
least it seems to me – is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego
recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a
river – small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls.
Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible
break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his
life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of
vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing
that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.
Bertrand Russell
Eachone's person is strongly defined by a basic animal character or instinct and its relationship and influence with, from
our youth, the environment and the external agents in which we live, against, also, our, in proportion and in most of the
cases, small and reduced self faculty to improve our person and attitudes.
Childhood, and its adult influence, is qualitatively less important than our first experience in the world, but excerpts the
last influence that by an high grade of probability will remain with us along all the life for the reasons exposed above.
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