The Rules to Break, 2nd Edition

RULE TO BREAK

“Eat, drink and be merry…”

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying yourself, and I’m certainly not one to advocate abstention when it comes to food and drink. But the Rule above ends ‘…for tomorrow we die’. While there’s no denying that we’ll all end up dead eventually, there’s no need to hurry it along. So by all means be merry, but don’t be as foolhardy as the Rule implies.

It’s hard to believe that you’re mortal when you’re young. As life goes on, people start to fall by the wayside and sooner or later – if you’re not one of them – you realise how fine a thread you hang by until the Fates decide to cut it. Life is more fragile than it seems, and death is devastating to those who are close. Until you have experienced this at first ...