Will Thinking about Death solve my Problems ?

Yesterday I was watching a movie in which the hero's mother dies in a car accident. As the family performed her last rites, background music played over the whole scene. I started crying, imagining the same thing happening to my mother.

I immediately called her and asked about her day. After the call ended, it hit me. I'm the one who rarely picks up her calls, or talks for a few minutes and then says "I have work." Yet I had just spoken to her for 30 minutes straight. And all of it happened because I imagined a scene from a movie playing out in my own life.

Then I started thinking about work and personal life the same way. Our disagreements with the people around us take up so much of our headspace. But when we zoom out and measure them against the life we have left, they're tiny problems that can be sorted out easily .So I'm trying to zoom out more often, and not let the worries of the moment take up space that belongs to the people I love.