Our Town, a play by Thornton Wilder, is a play that presents the most simple aspects of life. "That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those. . . of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another." This statement …showed first 75 words of 545 total…

…showed last 75 words of 545 total…and usually they regret it when it is too late. This quote, and these examples show how precious life is and how we often take it for granted. This must be true to some extent because in order to realize how precious and short life is, we would constantly be thinking about the day that it will end. To think about dying all the time is to stressful and would drive anyone to constantly paranoid.