MEMENTO MORI — Remember that you will die
When I wrote “On How to deal with Adversity” I did not think I would have to face the death of my father a few days later. It was and is the most challenging time in my life, by far. Today, also because of what just happened, we’ll focus on death.
📚 One book recommendation
In the book When Breath Becomes Air, neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
It was touching to read how his view on happiness changed from external elements to the present moment, the closest family members.
If only everyone with cancer would face it with the same determination and joy-de-vivre, maybe we wouldn’t stigmatize death so much. I found it powerful, visceral, and emotional.
📜 One quote to inspire you
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all…
