Death is a Reminder That Time is Finite

What are you going to do about it?

Photo by Brad Neathery on Unsplash

A few days after my birthday in September, I received a call. A former student of mine had committed suicide.

I didn’t know how to react. That had been the first time someone close to me had passed away. I struggled to breathe as I thought about how young she was, how she would be missing out on so many things…