Living Life With Passion

So very sad to learn of Ravi's loss. His friend was so very young to have died and Ravi so very young to experience such a great loss. Your post, Lynn, reminds me of two poems:

To Virgins to Make Much of Time
by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
 Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
 To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun,
 The higher he's a-getting;
The sooner will his race be run,
 And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best, which is the first,
 When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
 Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
 And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
 You may for ever tarry.

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And just in case we, oldies think that it's all over, listen to the words of Rumi:

Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixer that renews:
How can there be weariness
When passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

--Rumi, Mathnawi VI, 4302-4304