DTH-X-0040
“I walked away from something that should have killed me.”
You were handed time you weren't owed. That's not luck to shrug off, it's a second draft of a life most people only get one of. The clarity of the near-miss will fade; the noise will return. Decide now what the bonus time is for, before the ordinary reclaims you.
Your Practice
- Write down what flashed as important in the moment it could have ended.
- Cut one thing from your old life that the near-miss revealed as noise.
- Tell the people who'd have mourned you what they mean to you.
- Start the one thing you'd have regretted never starting.
The Architects
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 101, section 10, Richard M. Gummere translation