The More You Have Gratitude Towards Life, The Less You Fear Death

I came across the quote in my mind as I was driving home from work one day.  The idea came to me as I was worried about living... or perhaps end of it.  However, I realize that reasons we have such worry is because we are not having enough gratitude towards what life have already bestowed on us.  Somehow, this sense of worry about death stemmed from the lack that we feel within us.  We fail to realize the abundance that we current have.  This feeling of lack leads us to have the occasional anxiety of prospect that we have missed something during our life period.

Why do we fear death?  It is often due to us regretting on the things in life we missed, on the dreams we have not achieved.  However, there is danger that such regrets come from always looking at the external world and seeing how others might have become successful, which leaves you feeling inferior and perhaps being envious of others.  And this can distract you from having gratitude to what you already have.  It is important that we appreciate the things that the Divine has given us at the moment.  And through this appreciation, we can fill ourselves with gratitude and fill ourselves with abundance.  Our constant preoccupation of looking outwards will always result in us feeling not fulfill.  Often this compel us to pursue more of the external stuff in our attempt to fill the void we have in life.  However, we live in a life of strange logic, the more we pursue to fill our life with external stuff, to more the void grow bigger.  We are trapped in a vicious circle which (I believe in Buddhism) is called Samsara. When this will end?  How can we end this?  To achieve liberation. To emancipate ourselves for this perpetual cycle of discontent, of pain, and of internal suffering.  The answer is simple.... It is just by having gratitude.  Especially to the Divine.  And then to what we currently have.  From this gratitude, we will be able to grow our abundance.  And when we have abundance, then more "rewards", regardless whether it is small or large, will come and will have better appreciation of them.