The following is an excerpt from Paulo Coelho's 'The Zahir':
'..what if I could choose an epitaph? I would ask to have these words engraved:
He died while he was still alive.
That might sound like a contradiction in terms, but I knew many people who had ceased to live, even though they continued to work and eat and engage in their usual social activities. They did everything automatically, oblivious to the magic moment that each day brings with it, never stopping to think about the miracle of life, never understanding that the next minute could be their last on the face of this planet.'
O Dear Universe,
Let me never find myself in that space where I have died before dying... and if it were to happen so, please remember to remind me and shake me back into life and joy!!
