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I Am Dying and I Have a Greater Appreciation for Life
Love fully and put the past behind.
If you’ve arrived here expecting a dying woman’s wise take on life, I’m not going to lead you on any further.
I neither purport to be wise nor am I imminently dying.
But if you’d like to partake in a thought experiment, indulge my dramatic opening a while longer.
“We often read very moving accounts from the dying themselves — those at the threshold of dying, I should say, unlike the rest of us, who are simply in earlier stages of dying — about the profound lessons that seem so obvious at the end of life.”
- Arianna Huffington
When I read Arianna’s reflections on death in her book Thrive, I was struck by her inconspicuous digression — suggesting that we are all, in fact, dying, starting from the moment we are born.
Intellectually, we know that we’re all going to die (unless you’re a Silicon Valley mogul). But are we emotionally aligned with the idea that we are, right this second, in the process of dying?
