The other day I was at a yard sale with my neighbor and friend, more like family actually, searching for stuff for his and his fiance’s new property. There is, ermmm, about 20 years difference between us in age this time around, and this is sometimes obvious. For example, he can solve any computer problem at the speed of light and gets paid handsomely for doing it; but when we drove past several streets with the names “Whitman”, “Chaucer” and “Blake”, his face went blank when I said brightly: “Well, this is a literary area!!”
At the yard sale, he saw one of these 
Revenge was sweet. A few minutes later I saw one of these 
This is because my friend, for all we know, could be closer to his next rebirth as a little girl than I am to old age and dodgy knees in this life.
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Wow …that is so true ….death is closer than Mc donalds …!
What a thought! There it is, even at a street sale!!
I always find it powerful to think my next life is certain, whilst my old age of this life is not. So! Where’s the priority? Or as Geshe-la says, the thought “I will not die today” is deceptive, but the thought, “I may die today” is very wise.
Ha! Funny. And true.