One should count each day a separate life?

This was the message on the fortune cookie. I had never seen a fortune cookie message be this before so I found it interesting.

It is sort of like: "Hope springs eternal if we die daily".

I remember hearing this last statement as a child and being scared by it because I was trying (at 4 years of age) how one accomplished dying daily.

However, as I grew up and as growing up sometimes we all are crying going to sleep for one reason or another. A broken arm or nose, a fried or relative dies or is injured in an accident, whatever it is we go to sleep that night crying from physical or emotional pain. As an adult over 21 often I found the world overwhelming and I didn't have an answer or couldn't find the courage to go on and face one thing or other in my life. I learned to say to God, "God, let me die to you tonight so I can wake up ready to face whatever you need me to face tomorrow."

However, this doesn't work if you don't believe in God and then likely you would have to find some other mechanism. Like in Buddhism they say "Buddha Bless You" and stuff like this.

But what do people who don't have any religion or don't believe in anything do?

I don't have an answer for this because I wouldn't have survived past 15 years of age with Blunt Trauma childhood epilepy like I did without believing in something. So, I would already be dead now without something to believe in. But, that's just me. But, maybe you haven't ever had a seizure which for me was like someone murdering you by choking you to death or stabbing you to death until you lost and passed out and thought you were dead each time. So, you didn't need to believe in God not to just have a heart attack or stroke in these kinds of situations.

I always say, "There are no atheists in Foxholes." which has always been true of human beings looking at their legs blown off or guts hanging out and bleeding to death on a battlefield or on a city street somewhere like in "Ghost" the movie.

So, "One should count each day a separate life" because this gives one hope to keep on living and not carrying over things that one should completely let go of every single day.