Dear Jay-me:

Death is a daily reality, yet we ignore it best we can. We pretend it is an exception and won’t happen to us.

You wrote: “they might die, just like other people die, or I might die like my friend that passed on with accident”- no… they will die, just like other people die, just like every living thing on the face of the earth. And you will die too. And so will I. And we don’t know when.

This is a tough reality to accept. Very tough. Other living things, plants, animals, are fortunate this way: they don’t know, they don’t look into the future and know. They just live and die.

Since you already think a lot about death (“I am aways thinking about how is going to be if one of my family members dies, I am already feeling the pain before it all happens. lately it is as if I am waiting for it to happen…), think of it as a sure thing. Do your best to accept it as a sure thing. And then, treat yourself and others best you can. We are all in this life temporarily.

anita