"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same." ~ Og Mandino  

Og Mandino does not mean for us to focus on the negative or to be morbid. Considering the possibility that someone's death is imminent can shift us from taking life for granted to revering it. 

My mom's death was anticipated. She was in Hospice care. My dad died suddenly, with no warning. Both losses show me the wisdom, the value, and the power of extending care, kindness, and understanding to my still living loved ones and to all. 

Let's live this way, at least for this day

With loving kindness, 
Charlene

THE ELEVENTH GIFT IS LOVE: It will grow each time you give it away.  - from The Twelve Gifts of Birth