Victor (Vic) Strecher

Right.

And having a purpose because, you know, this isn't a practice round.

This is your life, whether it's long, whether it's short.

And she understood that she might end up living a briefer life than most of her friends.

And so she took the elements of her life very seriously.

She took the things that mattered most, her relationships, her friends.

She had a wonderful boyfriend.

She took her school very seriously.

She really wanted to become a nurse.

And she was passionate about being a nurse.

In fact, she was passionate about everything because she knew this is the one life that she had to live.

And that taught me a lot as well, frankly, about the fact that our lives are finite.

This isn't practice.

And we should live our lives really almost as Stoics would talk about, where maybe every day might be our last.

Not everybody goes through some difficult tragedy, and that's a good thing, of course.

We don't want everybody to have the loss of a loved one to stimulate a person's purpose.

But some simple ways you might start thinking about your purpose is simply to ask yourself, what matters most?

What are the things that are most important in my life?

Another thing to do, and we've just been talking about it, is mortality salience.

I have