Believe me, Charean, nothing brings this more into focus than battling with Death for five days in an ICU room while your entire body's systems are systematically breaking down. Once you've touched the face of Death, you can never return to where you were before.
I treasure every moment I have now...and I have learned to "seize the day."
How sad that it takes some of us up to the brink of Death to be able to understand this!