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Zen and the Art of Lasts

Appreciate life experiences as if it’s your last

Michael Competielle
4 min readOct 8, 2019

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Sitting helplessly in a electric chair I watched my fathers motor skills diminish rapidly. A former draftsman, artist and entrepreneur with perfect penmanship, he struggled to hold a pen to write the word hello.

His Multiple System Atrophy was affecting what little was left of his physical being. Trapped inside his…

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