I had a very short conversation about Mork from Ork saying that if he made people happy his life was rich. In retrospect I find that sad. Robin Williams certainly made a lot of people happy, but in the end they treated him like dirt. I don’t make a lot of people happy but I am “richer” than he was in a very specific way. I have a reliable support system. I am fairly confident that if my mind stops working before my body does that I will receive adequate care and that the small impact I have had on this world will be honored until the rest of me passes away. I want more people to be “rich” like that.

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