Death: The Roommate of Life - More To That

And when it comes to Death, the thing we fear most is that he will undo all the progress that Life has made in one fell swoop.

Here is where we can introduce the second editor of our list.

(3) The lessons of death can be learned now. We don’t need to wait until our Lists of Human Experience are blank to embrace the wisdom of death. We have this precise moment to work on the things that give us meaning, to embrace this existence we’ve been gifted, and to tell the people we love most that we love them.

Death’s sole responsibility as an editor is to remove the items that Life has written down that are no longer applicable or possible. You can think of Life as the additive editor, and Death as the subtractive one.

And this pain stings the hardest when Death removes our experiences in the form of our loved ones.

I think this has something to do with our innate adoration for children. The potential for what kids can become are endless, and it secretly reminds us of the times when we were constantly learning about new things, discovering new facts about the world in wonderment, and exponentially growing our own lists as well.

(1) Remember that Life and Death live on the same side of the same coin. Death is not idly waiting for us at the end of our journeys—no, it is always with us in the lives we lead now. Being acutely aware of this allows us to reflect on what really matters, and keeps us open to the new perspectives that Life has in store for us.

Sometimes we are reminded that he also has the ability to hurt us deeply.

While we’ve been discussing Death’s great abilities to dissipate the illusion of self-identity, not everything is so nice and rosy. His eraser has the power to remove the things we really need removed, but other times, he touches the parts of our list that we desperately don’t want him to touch.