> Saying "enjoy it while it lasts" serves no purpose other than to blunt a person's enjoyment of the the thing Does it blunt it, or make you realise what you h

> Saying "enjoy it while it lasts" serves no purpose other than to blunt a person's enjoyment of the the thing Does it blunt it, or make you realise what you have while you have it, and value it the more? Or are you right and I acknowledged that possibility in my pentultimate paragraph? I hear a lot of regrets about people no longer there, I hear very little of people saying how lucky they are with their partner/parents/others. I just don't know.