Have you ever felt like you were about to die? Not in the “one day I’ll die” kind of way, but in the “this is it, my time has come—goodbye, world” way?
That happened to me at the end of 2023. I was riding my bike home, and I was completely sure I wouldn’t make it back alive. It was the strangest, most unsettling feeling—so intense that it left me in shock for a while. Only when I got home, my safe place, did I start to process what had just happened and realize I was okay. I was alive.
It’s crazy how unprepared we are to deal with the one thing we know for sure will happen. Even though we’re aware of it, we just push it aside and keep living—until we don’t. Until it’s too late to think about what we should have done while we were here.
Because thinking about death is really thinking about life. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do in today’s episode.
I’m Vitor Leite, a journalist by training and a writer at heart, and this is Some Deep Shit—a podcast where I put into words the deep thoughts I wish I had heard somewhere out there.
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