There is a clip doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment entitled "What if money didn't matter". It has a guy narrating a piece about the importance of doing what you want to do in life and not necessarily focusing on the money.
One of the quotes with the most impact reads "If you say that getting the money is the most important thing you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living - that is to go on doing the things you don't like doing - which is stupid."
So if we can learn anything from the short lives of Mr Dodds and Mr Avery, isn't it about making each day count, having a positive influence on people's lives and having a life that we actually enjoy?
What do you think?
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