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“And meanwhile, you don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What\u00a0<\/span>is your life? <\/span>You are a vapor that appears for a second and then fades “(James 4, 14).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Since I was a little boy, I was formed in the pedagogy of Don Bosco. <\/span>In high school, every month, there was a penitential day called “Retreat of the good death”. It w<\/span>as impressive. <\/span>We were still kids, and this was the proposal that was made: “Let’s get ready, as if we were going to die!” <\/span>But how do you prepare to die?<\/span><\/p>\n We knew we could die at any time, so we prepared, each month, so that if we died, we were ready. <\/span>Every month, the night before the day of the “Retreat of the good death,” began the confessions, which continued\u00a0till 2:00 pm, then began the great cleaning, when each was tidying up his\u00a0seat: the portfolio of study, his\u00a0place in the bedroom, his closet. <\/span>We thought as follows: “if I died, how I wish people would find my closet, my wallet, my stuff?” <\/span>Of course, none of us would surprise people: “But he had this? <\/span>This video? <\/span>This tape? <\/span>And these pills? <\/span>This magazine? “.<\/span><\/p>\n We can find it strange, but this is a secret of Holiness! <\/span>Our lives need to be austere, sober and humble. <\/span>The secret is there: in any thing, it is necessary to accept and assume our smallness and poverty. <\/span>We need to live with what is necessary and nothing more.<\/span><\/p>\n