“You Could Be Hit By A Bus!”

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
and I’m gonna be talking about something
fairly morbid today the headline of this
this daily video of ours we’re doing one
a day for the 365 days of the year is
you could be hit by a bus god my
grandfather used to say that all the
time and I didn’t realize what he meant
by that I mean obviously I got the
basics of it you know do things now or
you could be dead and not be able to do
it but it also lent to his love of life
clearly it was important and the other
day I learned about the phrase memento
mori’ meam ENT o new word mor I memento
mori and basically a what a memento mori
is is you know I don’t have one
let’s just say this throat lozenge is a
memento mori and I would keep it on my
desk as a memento about death but more
importantly the fact that we’re all
going to eventually die and how to enjoy
life the warning that you’ll die the
very same day I learned about memento
mori which you know kind of sounds like
a guy that sells mementos out in the
valley memento mori higham memento mori
but it’s mo RI it’s not Mau ry a memento
mori I also learned about this concept
called ARS moriendi which is latin for
roughly translated the art of dying well
and I’m telling you all these things
because we’ve talked about time
management and being productive and
getting the most you can out of the time
that you have and rest and relaxation
and recharging and the ability for the
brain to be elastic about learning
things and then recovering from all that
learning so that it can be and
coated and enveloped in what we know and
all of this is with kind of this you
know Specter off in the distance of you
could be hit by a bus so what I’ve been
thinking about for the last week or so
off and on is this whole idea of my
mortality I started thinking about it in
my mid-40s but it’s it’s you know kind
of raised its head every so often here
and there not oddly enough when I’m
having some sort of a health issue but
just in general I’m very very fortunate
that I’ve lived the kind of life that
I’ve lived and I hope that you’re
fortunate living the life that you’re
living and my question for you is do you
live your life with the warning hanging
over your head
that it could end at any time and have
you lived a life well-lived ARS moriendi
is associated with memento mori z– in
the way that you know it’s something to
think about when it comes to death but
the art of dying well in medieval times
the Catholic Church came up with this as
a way to deal with people’s concerns
about dying what happens when we die
heaven and hell and all that sort of
thing and there was a group of I think
seven different things that they taught
people about dying well you know what
not to be afraid of how to comfort
someone who is passing and it’s where
last rites was sort of refined it’s been
around since the beginning of the
Catholic Church but last rites were kind
of codified you know what to do when a
catholic is dying and so on and i’m not
a particularly religious person i have
my own personal thoughts about how
religion is not very organized religion
and the the hierarchy of religion isn’t
very useful but i do think about death
and i do think about living a life
well-lived and i do think about getting
the most out of the time that we have
here on earth and I look forward to
dying well I don’t look forward to dying
but I look forward to the moment when I
sort of realized that that’s what I had
that’s the time that I had and I lived
it well and I helped others and I did
what I needed to do but my overarching
question here today is do you worry
about death and if you do what causes
you to worry about it and how can you
not worry about it I believe that
understanding as much about it as you
can knowing that it’s inevitable and
just sort of accepting the fact that if
you do things constantly trying to
refine things definition of success do
more of what works and less of what
doesn’t you could extend that to do more
of what works and less of what doesn’t
while you’re here on earth but the idea
of all of these things that we’ve been
talking about in terms of growth mindset
and the definition of success and honing
and refining and all of the the
relaxation things that we’ve been
talking about is that leading you to a
point where you worry less about death
where you take the time to give yourself
kudos a bit of a break and and some
credit for having a life that you’re
living well that you’re you’re having
fun at and yeah there’s some struggles
here and there but overall you know
they’re manageable
I wonder how you think about your
mortality for me it’s been something
that made me come to Los Angeles I
wanted to become an on-camera actor
before I passed away and I wanted to do
a lot of things I still have things that
I want to do but what I’m finding is the
more I learned about how to live life
well the less I’m concerned about dying
the less I’m concerned about dying
poorly I think I’m going to die when I
do die I’m gonna die well I just needed
to get that off my chest today I I don’t
think there was any big major point that
I wanted to stress other than the the
more skill you have in living life the
less likely it is that you’ll be fearful
of death
I think that’s what that’s what it all
boils down to I got I got sort of these
these tokens being sent at me about life
versus death or life and death and I
just wanted to share with share with you
I think that the peace that comes with a
life that you can you know build and
rely on and enjoy is really interesting
it’s really interesting what are your
thoughts about this what do you feel
like when you think about death I know
that some of the people that watch these
videos are very young and some of the
people that watch these videos are
closer to death then the young people
that watch the videos then I think to
myself you know you young people you
could get hit by a bus let me know in
the comments below what your thoughts
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I’m David H Lawrence xvii I so
appreciate you watching these daily
videos I thank you for helping me meet
this challenge and I will talk to you
tomorrow.