The help wanted ad from Shackleton requesting help for his long journey might be like the ad we answered when we signed on for this life. The only difference might be that a "safe return" is likely. Honor and recognition probably will be based on what we learn but the experience will bring us to a point where we will see things different.
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I have liked T.S. Eliot's quote and have wondered why he felt that way and what might be concluded from the quote. It seems to me that Eliot was thinking about a homecoming and it is likely that he considered that at his death he would begin again as himself wiser for what he had learned. Wiser for answering the ad. Wiser for the experience. More depth, more capacity to understand. Better able to see things in a different way. Wisdom seems to come from experience rather than words.
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