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COMING FACE TO FACE WITH OUR MORTALITY

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Not to sound cynical or arrogant, I've come face to face with death a few times already.  What happened last Tuesday was nothing new.  Given, it was the first time I almost had a heart attack because of a heart disease, but it was not the first time my heart would have stopped.  I am trying to reflect on what I might learn from the experience but my head is still too achy I cannot think at all with clarity. So this is going to be nothing but a nonsensical rambling.  I wasn't feeling too good at all even the previous day.  That morning, I almost wrote my team that we won't meet that day because I was not feeling myself but we have wasted one too many days already because of the typhoons that caused power outages and internet disconnections. So I sent out a message that we will have a checking session that day.  And we did, and because my mentee was new, I did most of the talking.  At a few minutes after 5, I said goodbye to the BT team, closed my laptop and went out to find