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Enlightenment often begins the moment we stop treating death as an intruder and start recognizing it as the quiet companion that has been walking beside us all along. When we accept that everything we love and create, and the self we cling to, will eventually dissolve, a strange clarity opens. Life becomes lighter, more vivid, and less burdened by fear. In embracing our own impermanence, we stop gripping so tightly and finally make space for presence, gratitude, and a kind of freedom that only arises when nothing is guaranteed.