It's not trite. Especially when things aren't working, and it would be so safe and warm and simply to stop wanting to do extraordinary things and sink back into momentum, inertia, the rhythm of everything that has ever been or will be. Not that I wish any of you to have a huge loss, or near loss, but once you do it is galvanizing - if you let it reach you at the core. As others on this thread have said, memento mori.