The Importance of Awareness in Life

There's a great poem called For The Anniversary Of My Death by W.S. Merton I encourage any literary-minded listeners to Google it And what he's basically saying is, every year without knowing it I pass the anniversary of my death It's an interesting thing to think about, you know? We celebrate our birthday, but when's my death day? Some of the American Indian tribes say, never count a man as lucky until you've seen his death Which I take to mean, no matter how good your life is Until the whole story's over, you don't know if it was luckier and hot A lot of our life, though, is how well we're preparing ourselves