American freelance writer and aphorist
Robert Brault is an American freelance writer and aphorist, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1938. Contributing to U.S. magazines and newspapers since 1961, he became best known for his short, epigrammatic observations, which are quoted on thousands of websites daily and have appeared everywhere from Reader's Digest to the CBS series Criminal Minds. In 2014 he gathered work from his long-running blog "A Robert Brault Reader" into his first collection, "Round Up the Usual Subjects: Thoughts on Just About Everything."
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Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.