Worry less about the day you’ll die and more about all the days you spend not really living.

Fear of the ending often works as a distraction from the middle. It is a large, abstract worry, and large abstract worries are strangely comfortable because nothing can be done about them today. Meanwhile the days that slip past half attended to are the ones actually available to you.

Notice when your mind reaches for the big fear instead of the small action in front of it. Then take the small action. One real hour, spent awake and with someone, answers the worry better than any amount of thinking about it.