“Paradise had been just a few hours’ plane flight and some dirt roads away, and I didn’t even know it existed. And I realized, not only had it existed for the two-and-a-half years I’d been so busy, but the sun had been setting there, and the waves had been crashing upon that beach, for millions if not billions of years.” He paused for a moment, “As those thoughts washed over me, I felt very small. My problems, the things I’d stressed about, my worries about the future, all seemed completely unimportant. I realized no matter what I did or didn’t do during my life, whether my decisions were
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