Mark Evans DM reflects on recording an audio message for his grandmother before she died. He argues that viewing situations through different lenses, like anticipatory gratitude, gives you an unfair advantage over sudden loss and missed chances to say thanks.
When my grandmother died, I was able to have the opportunity to sit down and create an audio through a tape deck to how much she meant to me. But if she had a car wreck and died unexpectedly, I would have never had that opportunity. So I was always grateful and thankful for it. It's not fun. It's not exciting. I'm not praying like, oh, I hope my grandma dies today. But it happens, and I had the opportunity to do that. So when you start looking through those lenses, it changes the game. It really does. It's an unfair advantage, for sure. I believe.
