LOOKING AT LIFE FROM THE OTHER SIDE
Toward the end of the last century, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel woke one morning to read his own obituary in the local newspaper: “Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, who died yesterday, devised a way for more people to be killed in a war than ever before, and he died a very rich man.” Actually, the newspaper reporter had erred. It was Nobel’s older brother who had died. He decided he wanted to be known for something other than developing the means to kill people efficiently and for amassing a fortune in the process. So he initiated the Nobel Prize, the award for scientists and writers who promote peace. Nobel said, “Every man ought to have the chance to correct his epitaph in midstream and write a new one. From Is It Real When It Doesn’t Work? by Doug Murren and Barb Shurin
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