How You Live When You Are Afraid of Death

In my experience, it’s nothing like the movies.

Photo by Rodrigo Soares on Unsplash. Some of my favorite childhood memories are from this beach in California.

Once upon a time, I nearly died. I was very young when it happened, hardly a teenager, with eyes watching the world and my heart hidden at home. I did not know then that there would be no end to the changes that came: the younger sister who became the older one, the parents who greyed before their years would ask…