Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we I'm sure we would do things differently. The things we spend so much time on might not seem important making us being able to appreciate even the slightest liberties in life. We are too involved in materialistic things. We take things what really matter our relationships, the universe around us, our health for granted.
In order to stay humble about the idea of death we need to accept the fact that one day we are all going to leave this world behind. That way we can actually be more involved in life while we are living it.
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