White baby boomers had high expectations of the future, yet many of them have lived to discover that they will be worse off than their parents.
Given his concerns about the stagnation of the civil-rights movement soon after the March on Washington, it's hard to imagine that King would have been satisfied, had he lived, to discover that on the fiftieth anniversary of his speech, black Americans are still calling out from an island of poverty and going unheard.
There are dozens of well-known cases of people who lived to discover what the world thought of them, usually because publication of the obituaries that newspapers, as is their habit, had prepared ahead of their deaths was accidentally triggered by false reports, confusion of names or malicious invention.
Survivors of this murky period prove it is possible to overcome the dark depressed nooks and crannies of our lives to discover a life of authentic joy.
Instead of being known as the person who's too afraid to admit that they made a mistake, be the person who lives to discover new things.
It is a way to celebrate and honor those who did not live "straight" lives and to discover role models and trail blazers who may have been obscured, forgotten, or stripped of their queerness.
One print ad in the campaign — whose tag line is "Live life to discover"— shows a guest in his room at the Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe, and urges readers to "stop by Carette Patisserie, just a short stroll from the Renaissance," for its blackberry macaroons, which are also depicted.
Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, undertakes an examination of these five lives, hoping to discover God's intentions - unwisely, as it turns out.
You would purge the planet of industrial civilisation, at the cost of billions of lives, only to discover that you have not invoked "a saner world" but just another phase of destruction.
"We've arrived at the top of the staircase, finally ready to start our lives, only to discover a cavernous room at the tail end of the party, most of the men gone already, some having never shown up — and those who remain are leering by the cheese table, or are, you know, the ones you don't want to go out with".
