Life's Too Short...

[Deborah aka Loxly]

I started a similar thread in another place a few years ago, it's time for a new one with a new purpose.

I had never heard the phase "Mortality Reminder" before recently and it encompasses those events that remind you that we aren't here forever and we should be aware that we need to live life fully because ... life's too short.

We woke up this morning to fire trucks on our block, a house was on fire. It was an electrical fire from an overloaded outlet. Everyone was fine, people and pets. But the house is done for as well as the contents.

We came home and checked our outlets and our insurance policies to be sure if it happens here we are covered. And to be sure that electricity overload doesn't cause issues in our home.

[godbrick]

That would be pretty scary waking up to a fire. You just never know what is going to happen, even when you think you have every little detail planned. A wise monk once said, "The happy man is the man who lives life in every breath." Unfortunately, none of us have the power to put our life on hold, we have to live life in every breath whether we acknowledge it or not. I suppose the monk should say, "The happy man is the man who realizes that he cannot stop existing."