When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently

"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently...Always be prepared to die....Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.....Everyone knows someone who died - so why is it so hard for us to learn how to die? Because most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do. However, facing death strips away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently."

Morrie Schwatrz, Tuesdays with Morrie