Powerful thought from Rabbi Yissocher Frand

Unfortunately, most of us live our lives not only without exceeding
expectations, but without even meeting them. I recently saw a
frightening thought from the Zohar. The Zohar teaches that
immediately before a person's death, his soul gives a scream that can
be 'heard' (spiritually) from one end of the world to the next. What is
the soul screaming about? At that moment, G-d shows the soul an
image of what it was supposed to become during its sojourn on earth.
The soul is traumatized by the gap between what it was supposed to
become and what actually became of it. The soul lets out this shriek
which is heard through the entire universe: "Woe is me. I did not
even come close!"

(Rabbi Yissocher Frand)

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