The sad thing is, you tell someone "Someday you're going to suddenly wake up and realize that 10 years of your life has gone by and you've not done anything you wanted to do." And at the front side of those 10 years its really hard for them to hear, at the back side its catastrophically depressing for some.

It is the essence of the mantra "You are going to be dead a year from now, so put your affairs in order." kind of motivation that folks use to force them to finish things they start. Life is the journey, at some unpredictable time the journey stops.