Yesterday, I discovered that as the calendars flipped to 2025, a college friend passed away in her sleep. She had been battling cancer, and a positive update she shared on Christmas Eve made me think that I should reach out to her since I was on winter break and we hadn’t spoken directly in a long time. Sadly, that conversation will never happen. I’m reading 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman , which is all about time management because our current life expectancy is roughly four thousand weeks. It's not my typical read, but a trusted friend suggested it, and thus, I’m reading and enjoying it.  In our post-COVID world, I’ve already put into place much of what Burkeman writes about. My priorities and decisions have evolved because I’ve embraced that there is only so much I can control and that my time is limited. All of us could be gone instantly, and then all the things we were concerned or worried about wouldn’t matter to us anymore. I promise that it isn’t as dark as it sounds.…