It's important to your family and friends that you stay alive. This is something I live with every day. Getting married and having a son meant I couldn't be as foolish as I had been before I turned 26 and got married and had a son in 1974. So, raising a son gave me a reason to stay alive and to raise my son right. The same is true when each of my two biological daughters were born too. And now we have a 3rd daughter who is adopted who is married with a child and husband too and my son is married with a 5 year old son too at this point which is good too. And all these things give one greater responsibility both to oneself and to one's family and friends to take better care of oneself too.
It's pretty easy for me to imagine having died at 50 when I got the heart virus if I wasn't married to my present wife and if I didn't have kids to think about too even one was already grown up then. I still refused to die because I had a 2 1/2 year old when I was 50 and I refused to die and leave her fatherless. So, because of this I'm still alive now at 71.
Family has always been a very powerful thing for me and has always given me reasons to stay alive when I might not have otherwise.
From my point of view we all live ONLY by God's Grace anyway. So, looking at life this way for me is a really pleasant experience.
By God's Grace
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