[Circle V]

When you spend more time thinking about death than living, you're already dead. That said, I'm often preoccupied with it on some level, be it subconscious or conscious. I don't allow it to dominate my life, or even to truly depress me. The only thing I fear about death (now at least, with it seeming so far away) is dying alone. Not literally, you understand.

Thoughts (of death and everything else) creep in at night, when you're doing nothing at all. Idleness inevitably leads to speculation. It seems to me that one of the reasons for the oft-mentioned decline of our species is that we have so many things to do that many of us see no reason to think at all, and those of us that find it important don't have the required time to do so.