
Chances are, you’ve never heard of Candy Chang.
She lives in New Orleans, in an area many would consider a rough part of town.
A few years ago, Chang unexpectedly lost someone who was very dear to her. The jolt of that unforeseen tragedy made her bereavement even more disheartening. Sudden loss does that — tranquility instantly dashed, replaced by bewilderment, and even anger.
Following her loss, the void of despair lingered, and even widened. But then, something strange happened. Death procreated the birth of new perspectives.
“Death was always on my mind,” Chang writes. “It brought clarity to my life. It reminded me of the people I want to love well, the type of person I want to become, and the things I want to do. But I struggled to maintain this perspective. It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget what really matters to me. I wondered if other people felt the same way.”
They did. Indeed, lots of people felt the same way. Thousands. Tens of thousands. Even millions.
Chang would make this marvelous discovery entirely on her own, accidentally, setting forth a perpetual motion of proverbial tumbling dominoes all over the world spawning from a wacky idea that first began on a run-down city block in central New Orleans. It all started with an overtly simple idea and the willingness of someone both a little courageous and a little crazy to pose a simple, yet provocative thought.
Before I die I want to ……
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