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To: SirRealist who wrote (4768)	10/13/2001 3:28:14 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 281500

I know too, about losing control, and wouldn't recommend it. Something occurred last summer (not this summer) that completely up-ended my life as I knew it and required a great deal of tenacity to get through--and things are still not the same. A friend of mine told me he isn't afraid, and quoted an old allegory to me. Death is coming to dinner, and one guy says, "I guess I will eat with him." The other guy says, "No, I'm going to the next town, I'll eat at the inn there, I'm not going to have dinner w/ death." So Death comes to dinner, and he asks where is the second guy? And when he learns, he says, "Ah, that's interesting, because tomorrow night I am having dinner at that inn." In some sense, a certain fatalism, mixed with doing your best to shape your life cautiously and well, is not a bad thing. Perhaps there's a shape to our destinies, an overall shape, that we really could not have altered.