Back seat passenger

We live our lives, knowing that it will one day end, but we imagine the end coming after a full and productive life. And we assume that when the end comes it will be when we are old and all our children have grown up and done well. At least that's what we hope.

Death will someday come for us all, we know this yet we dread the day we will meet him.

What we don't realise is that he is not some stranger who we will be introduced at the end, but a constant companion we have carried with us, from the start.

The silent back seat passenger that we forget was sitting behind us all along.

It's only when a young person is taken that we wake up to this reality, but in order to go about our lives and still keep our sanity, we try to forget the dark passenger in the back seat.

Those who are unable to forget the passenger are unable to see the road ahead.

So while most people would have you live like 'there is no tomorrow', I feel maybe we should live as if we are to live forever.

And when the passenger clears his throat and calls your name, then it's your time to go and nothing you did or didn't do, will make any difference.