You never get over the moment you realize that you're definitely going to die. You're usually a small child when the insight hits, and you usually have a vague idea of what death is, but the first-person epiphany-the "Wait, that's going to happen to me?" experience-changes everything. Your sense of time and its fleeting passage can never go back to what it was before you discovered that you too are on the clock.
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