We all should think about death more often

…and stop ignoring it.

If you are reading this, there is 100% chance that you are going to die. The caveat is — nobody knows when.

Unfortunately, we forget that we might die any moment. And because we forget, we leave things on the back burner (until they’re too burnt to recover), we tolerate situations we don’t want to be in, we are afraid to do things that we might regret, and we generally waste our precious moments. That is the bittersweet beauty of being human.

But let me be the bearer of bad news —all of us will die. We just don’t know when.

What if you knew you’d die in a week? How would you spend the next seven days?

Well, why aren’t you doing all these things now? Whether or not you do die next week, all of these actions could have an enormous, restorative effect on your life.

I believe that we don’t think about death enough. We are scared of it, we avoid it, and we certainly hate acknowledging its inevitability. It makes us uncomfortable. But death is a great teacher — it is the thing that makes life precious and worth living. And it is a reminder to prioritize what matters to us.

Thinking about death brings the focus back to the present moment — it is only now that matters. And to address all the sensitivities of the present day — I see death awareness as a mechanism for happiness, not a mechanism for escape. So, now that we’ve all collectively thought about death a little bit, it’s time to think about life! Do you see how beautiful it is?

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