The Only Grand Thing We Can Possess Is Our Life

Everything else is a rental.

We may own nothing but our very being—our breath, consciousness, and the purposeful actions of our present. Everything else is transient—a rental—we learn to cherish the immediacy of existence. As one well‐known Kinyarwanda proverb reminds us: Iby’ejo bibara ab’ejo (Tomorrow’s things are told by those coming tomorrow)—a truth that compels us to refuse t…