i love this part.

"Because" Morrie continued, "Most of us all walk around as if we're
sleepwalking.
We really don't experience the world fully , because we're half asleep,
doing things we automatically think we have to do."

And facing death changes all that?

"Oh, yes. you strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.
when you realize you are going to die, you see everything much
differently."

He sighed. "Learn how to die, and you learn how to live."

Tuesday With Morrie-Mitch Albom