[andyjohnson0]

I wish the author a happy birthday. But - and I hope this is taken in a spirit of constructive kindness - the post is fairly generic and bland advice. I'm sure it is well meant, but I hope I never feel tempted to post something like this when I'm 72.

[vjerancrnjak]

You can rationally understand what's being said but you're not attached to it.

"You will die, don't delve over negative moments too much."

You can read this but have no experience of knowing you will really die. You might rationally understand it, but you experience no change. Yet when you finally realize you will die, when you truly know it, you act from a different place.

"You will die." is very generic and bland yet truly knowing it can change everything.

[andyjohnson0]

Maybe.

I know I'm going to die. I've been with people when they died. And I'm seeing a parent living with the challenges of very old age. I know I'm going to die and I try to meditate on that and, as far as I can tell, I truly know it. And I see the value of that knowledge.

But in a way it also changes nothing. I'm still alive. I'm still going to die. Nothing fundamental has fundamentally changed.