Your Own Mortality

I haven’t thought about my own mortality however, I recently had a mortality check, if that makes sense. I used to live in California throughout elementary and middle school and moved out east when I was 13 so I obviously went to high school out here. Fast forward to a Facebook post an old friend had. It was a list of the students in the class I would have graduated with out west. The list was of those who passed, and it was disturbingly long. One name in particular stood out and has, for lack of a better term, haunted me since I’ve seen it. I hadn’t thought about this person in ages but once I saw the name, memories came flooding back in and now this person is gone. I’m trying every avenue that I know to find out the how. Public records, person search anything but cannot find one iota of this persons passing. If anyone has a link or can point me in the right direction for finding this sort of thing, I would be grateful.

So, it was this wakeup call that told me, we are not here forever. We are not invincible. We are not forever. It really has thrown me for a loop. This whole experience has reminded me of an old song lyric:

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.