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Live The Best You Can
"Live, friend, one day at a time, doing the best you know how, sowing a word here and a deed there," Yogi Ramacharaka writes. "Do your best, but give every other person the same privilege. Mind your own business. Cease to persecute. Be filled with love, tolerance, and compassion. See all as part of the All."
Manuel Enrique
April 10, 2024
"Do you think God made the stars, Phil?" Louie asks.
"Yes, I do," Phil replied.
"So you think there’s some kind of grand plan? Why did we live and the others didn’t? Why are we here now?" Louie asks.
"Here’s the plan," Phil replies. "Go on living the best you can. And try to have some fun along the way. And then one day it’s over."
This is what was going on inside their minds after weeks of suffering in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during World War II. They were exhausted and barely surviving at this point.
Their plane malfunctioned, crashed, killed most of the crew, and left them with only two rafts and a few emergency supplies. They were constantly tested by sharks, dehydration, hunger, enemy gunfire, and a blistering sun.
After unbelievable amounts of suffering, torture, and inhumane living conditions in the ocean and in Japanese prisoner camps, Louis Zamperini and Russell Allen Phillips kept doing the best they could. They survived the war and went back home to keep living their life. It is an unbelievable story of resilience, belief, courage, and determination.
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