DTH-XII-0060
“I put my affairs in order, not from fear, but as a final act of love.”
Setting your affairs in order is one of the most loving and least romantic things a person can do, sparing the people you love a mess of chaos at the worst moment of their lives. Most avoid it because it means looking death in the eye. You looked. What you've done is build a quiet kind of care that activates exactly when you're gone.
Your Practice
- Write or update the will, the wishes, the instructions. Remove the guesswork for them.
- Tell someone you trust where everything is. A plan no one can find isn't a plan.
- Write the letters you'd want them to have. The legal part is care; the letters are love.
- Then live. Order set, you're free to focus fully on the time you still have.
The Architects
“We had to find a way and we did. Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.”
Margaret Hamilton, MIT News, "Recalling the 'Giant Leap'," July 17, 2009 (Hamilton's written reflection)