All the Time in the World.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed nothing.

We have had hope for our long lives over the last 100 years like never before with modern medicine and its treatments and cures. What the COVID-19 pandemic has done is poked a lot of holes in those hopes... 

Now is the time to open ourselves and our loved ones to what what our values are and what we value.  
Now is the time to be productive with our worry and pre plan for the end of our life. 
Now is the time to make a Living Will and appoint a Healthcare advocate with your Power of Attorney for the time when you may not be able to speak for yourself. Planning improves care.
Now is the time to designate a Financial Power of Attorney. Planning expedites care. 
Now is the time to organize our living by planning for our death. 
 
In dying, the devil is in the details...many will tell of a family who loved and lived happily until there was an estate to manage.  
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Now is the time to give our loved ones a map.
Now is the time to edit our technology and so control how we will be seen when we are dead.
​Now is the time to edit our social media so our loved ones have a place to grieve. 

The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed nothing.

Hearts are breaking for hearts that are broken
So eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
Or maybe next Tuesday for those of us without a battle flag to fly
Though we are no less noble or brave
Because we can still wave goodbye
We have all the time in the world
Until the limitless possibilities of
Youthful infinity turn into mortality
But that's after a long, fun struggle of watching everyone
Not me and not you
Suddenly go pale
Some failed to live up to life
Some trailed behind their own comet tails
Some wailed and cried out to God to no avail
And some got impaled by speeding metal
And infected needles
But I'm here
And you're here
And why do we still care enough
Or even too much to write or make words
In the hope that someone in the future will hear?
History is just one lost language after another
After another
And when they're all taken together we still
Can't decipher the past or decode the future
We're just lost without a map
We are dust, it's true
And to dust we shall return, me and you
But it was fun while it lasted
All the time in the world
Turns out not to be that much"
"All the Time in the World", Alphabetland, X