Death aligned

I would hazard a guess that most people who attend a funeral walk away from it with a new perspective on life.

What really matters, how short life can be, how you would like to leave this mortal plain.

What follows might be a renewed vigour to pursue those goals that have been gathering dust or a desire to tell loved ones how you feel.

Then you get back to the office and the perspective narrows and you’re back to worrying about trivial matters.

I think this is unavoidable.

As someone once said:

There are two things you can’t look at: the Sun, and death.

Your brain doesn’t want to contemplate its own demise. It would happily live in bliss that it all has to end.

This is why I think it’s important to write the habits while you have the perspective so that when death does come, you can embrace him like an old friend.