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A life that matters: Tony D’Souza’s Thought for the Week
‘How will the value of your days be measured?’
by Tony D’Souza
10th October 2025
Like every other living organism, we are in the grip of time. The simple truth is that we all have to die someday – we just don’t know the date. And that is our problem. We muddle through each day never thinking it might be our last, and we go to sleep with the unfounded expectation that we will wake up in the morning. We never face our mortality; we never ask how we are to spend the fleeting days we have on earth in a meaningful way.
