The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you.
Lost and Found: One Woman's Story of Losing Her Money and Finding Her Life (ed. Penguin, 2011) - ISBN: 9781101513415