Everyone will die.

That's not a foreboding statement. It's a reality and one that we may wish to start acknowledging every now and then. Collective paranoia and pithy truisms can provide short-term solace, but is that really how you want to go about your business? Today's reflection is a freestyle 'rant', perhaps not in the truest sense of the word, and I hope it draws your attention to that most valuable of human qualities - self-reliance.

A bit more about H.A.L.T: https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/how-are-you-feeling-take-minute-halt-for-your-health-0515184