It does put a lot of things in perspective.
It makes you re-evaluate your priorities.
Life is short so live everyday as if it's your last. If you do that, you won't be bothered about materialistic things. It's a given that you're most likely to lose a lot of your possessions in natural/human disasters. Plus you can't take any of your prized valuables with you when you die anyway.
I've never been that bothered about materialistic belongings. The less I have, the better.
I never wanted kids. I've always thought why would I want to bring a life into this world? Nothing lasts forever, death is a natural part of the cycle. I don't want that pressure on my shoulders.
Obviously that changed after I had my first baby, and my mindset changed to well, I've got only one baby to protect and care for, I can manage that.
Then number two came along and I thought, well, one for each arm, I can still cope with that.
Now I dunno WTF I'm going to do with number 3. I'm hoping there will be an extra pair of hands around when/if I ever need them to protect my kids, else I'm going to have to grow a third arm somehow. And I know what's to blame for me thinking this way. It's that stupid NZ based tsunami film they aired last year. The mother had three kids - only two survived because she didn't have the capacity to keep a hold of her third.
And why are YOU so active, hmmmmmm?
Ugh. Here we go again.
maybe SoS difficulty? I've gotten a lot better 
