We all know it, but it’s worth the reminder:
You are going to die.
And I know… harsh way to start an email. But I think it’s important we talk about it even if it’s an uncomfortable topic.
Chances are, not today… or tomorrow. Hopefully several decades from now.
But the inevitability of death doesn’t change. One day will be your last.
Now I’m not saying this to be dramatic.
I’m saying it because it’s the one truth we all share… and the one truth we spend most our lives avoiding.
Maybe you’ve got 50 years left.
Maybe 5.
Maybe you won’t wake up next week.
You don’t know.
I don’t know.
No one does.
And that uncertainty?
That’s not dark.
It’s powerful.
The Gift We Keep Rejecting
Here’s what I’ve realized.
Remembering that you will die is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.
The issue is most people refuse to open it.
We drown it out with noise.
We change the subject.
We scroll.
We plan for “someday.”
Because thinking about death feels heavy.
Uncomfortable.
Too real.
But pretending you have unlimited time is what quietly destroys your life.
When you think you have forever, you waste today.
You delay the hard conversation.
You postpone the idea.
You tell yourself you’ll start next month, next year, next phase.
And “later” becomes a lifestyle.
Not because you’re careless.
But because you believe there’s always more time.
Spoiler alert: there isn’t.
What Changed Me
I learned this in a way I didn’t expect.
I watched someone close to me live with a very real sense that their time was shorter than most.
They didn’t waste mornings.
They didn’t drag out decisions.
They didn’t live on autopilot.
Every day meant something.
Not in a loud, performative way.
In a quiet, intentional way.
They didn’t have the luxury of pretending.
Watching that shifted something inside me.
It made failure feel smaller.
Because the real failure isn’t trying and failing. It’s never trying at all.
It made “perfect” timing feel like such a silly idea.
Because if you wait for perfect… you’ll die waiting.
It made scrolling for hours feel absurd!!
Because I had seen someone who would have given anything for one more ordinary Monday.
That’s when it clicked.
The awareness of death isn’t depressing.
It’s clarifying.
The Trap You’re In
Here’s the hard part.
Even if you understand this… you’ll forget it tomorrow.
You’ll wake up and slip back into routine.
Back into distraction.
Back into acting like time is endless.
Not because you’re weak.
Because the world is designed to make you forget.
Your phone pulls you in dozens of times a day.
Endless feeds.
Auto play shows.
Algorithms built to keep you consuming instead of creating.
You know you should be building something.
Learning something.
Spending time on what matters.
You feel the gap between who you are and who you want to be.
But you don’t move.
That gap isn’t intelligence.
It’s awareness without action.
And that’s where most people stay.
Why This Matters
You cannot rely on motivation to remember that your time is limited.
Motivation fades.
Intentions blur.
Days blend together.
But awareness changes decisions.
If you truly remembered that this moment will never come back, you would choose differently.
You would speak up.
You would start.
You would stop waiting.
The people who live without deep regret are not the ones who ignore death.
They are the ones who remember it.
And let it wake them up.
You will die.
That’s not the tragedy.
The tragedy is living like you won’t.
Let that truth sharpen you.
Let it focus you.
Let it make you brave enough to stop postponing your own life.
You don’t need more time.
You need to use the time you have.
YOUR #1 FAN,
Sebastian