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4 benefits of regularly thinking about death
… in a bizarre, backwards way, death is the light by which the shadow of all of life’s meaning is measured. Without death, everything would feel inconsequential, all experience arbitrary, all metrics and values suddenly zero.
~ Mark Manson
You and everyone you love is going to die.
Does that surprise to you?
Does that make you angry or sad?
Most people find it morbid and uncomfortable to talk or even think about death. Yet, it’s also one of the only things we know for certain is going to happen to all of us.
And while we know intellectually that death is a normal part of life, we’re not so great at recognizing that death could impact us at any moment. When it comes to considering our own mortality, or the mortality of those closest to us, we become squeamish, like thinking or talking about death will somehow bring it closer to happening.
Maybe we’re a littler superstitious about it. Maybe we’ve been taught to avoid the topic. Maybe it’s a secret fear within all of us.
