Sometimes I also panic when I feel that I start to understand my mortality. However, usually a few thoughts come to my mind... 1. The most obvious is that I sh

Sometimes I also panic when I feel that I start to understand my mortality. However, usually a few thoughts come to my mind... 1. The most obvious is that I shouldn't exist and I'm incredibly lucky to be here. It's a good time to be alive in history. I'm a person that can enjoy life, appreciate music and art, freely pursue my passions, and travel and see the world. Yes, I want to live longer or see what's happening in a million years. However, I need to remind myself that I basically won the lottery a trillion times over to be here, and asking for more at that point is just absurd. I should appreciate what I've been given. 2. There are lots of people I admire in the world today. Sometimes I'm watching a YouTube video or I'm talking with someone and I can't help but think it's cool that I live at the same time as this person, and how they can be a part of my life. 3. As for death, I think about the people I know that have died: family members, good friends, personal heroes or notable people in history. They died, so I find some comfort in going where they went. I don't think I'm above them, so if death was their end, it's an acceptable fate for me too. 4. We don't understand the universe. What are the odds a big bang creates a universe with the forces and elements required to enable life that can ask this very question? It shouldn't happen. I feel like we have such a primitive understanding of the universe and beyond, and that we truly don't understand life, and therefore death. I get a bit of comfort there, because the mysteries of the universe mean I can't be certain what death even means. Yes, my life as I know it will end. But, maybe I've already died millions of times before? Maybe there is an afterlife? Maybe this is a simulation? Maybe I'll live this life again? Maybe I'll live an even better version of this life? We don't know, so perhaps I shouldn't be so pessimistic about what it means to die.