GM NOSTR, God bless the real ones.

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Go as a pilgrim and seek out danger

far from the comfort and the well lit avenues of life.

Pit your every soul against the unknown

and seek stimulation in the comfort of the brave.

Experience cold, hunger, heat and thirst

and survive to see another challenge

and another dawn.

Only then will you be at peace with yourself

and be able to know and to say;

“I look down the farthest side of the mountain,

fulfilled and understanding all,

and truly content that

I LIVED A FULL LIFE AND ONE OF MY OWN CHOICE

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“We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go

Always a little further; it may be

Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow

Across that angry or that glimmering sea,

White on a throne or guarded in a cave

There lies a prophet who can understand

Why men were born: but surely we are brave,

Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”