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4 Things I Learned About Life After Facing My Fear of Death
A personal story about fear, love, and what it really means to live fully.
Last week, someone close to me shared that they had received some overwhelming health news. He didn’t say what it was — just that it wasn’t good.
My chest tightened. The truth is, my mind immediately jumped to the worst-case scenario — something like cancer — and I didn’t want to go there. I didn’t want to face it.
It felt so uncomfortable to be around someone who was just being honest about something hard.
Why?
Later that day, I sat with that discomfort. And I realized: it wasn’t his situation I was afraid of.
It was what it reminded me of — how quickly life can change. How fragile it all is.
It made me scared. Of sickness. Of death. Of loss.
Your world can fall apart in an instant. But it only seems to get better slowly, over time.
Here’s the paradox: we all know we’re going to die. It’s one of life’s only guarantees.
And still… the thought of it terrifies us.
So I sat with the fear. I looked it in the eye. And here’s what I learned.
