Life, Death, and all between

So I have been thinking about life death and all between lately. I am thinking most specificity about death and what it will be like to deal with it first hand. The death of a loved one, family or close friend. A hard thing to contemplate. I cant help to think about my own death first. I come to grips with it and I feel that I'm OK with it. I am not scared to take the leap in to death. But what if some one I love jumps in before me? I feel that I have to be ok with it. What I'm scared of is being left behind. It is not knowing if I will ever have a chance to reconnect with the energy of them ever again. That scares me. I love ya'll so much! At least knowing that I could reconnect would make the death process bearable. Detachment. It scares me. In fact I just now realized that I am scared to die. Maybe not. Hard to say. I know this; when it arrives I am sure that I will be able to face it just as all have done before me. With all this thought of life and death I have become particularly aware of a pattern. I keep seeing it in the world. While playing disk golf on Tuesday I noticed a type of lichen. The pattern as seen in the following pic reminded me of neural pathways in the brain.

This got me thinking. I thought about the internet and how the structure of our brain, reflected in the lichen are so similar in from. Again I saw this in the tree's profile against the grey sky and in the way the wind pushes the falling rain clear of the windshield. All around seemingly unrelated energies are connected in a greater context beyond my scope as an individual. This greater realm gives me hope. I realize that when our form of energy changes we will still be within a greater context that I am now starting to get familiar with.