Writing my will sent me into an existential spiral

Suddenly, I was considering my past and future. What does it mean to build a life? What do I want to leave behind?This fall, my husband and I worked with a family law attorney to write our wills and advance directives. We attempted this 10 years ago, after our first child was born, but abandoned the project amid sleep deprivation and the overwhelm of new responsibilities. Now that we are the parents of two no-longer-little kids, and more accustomed to the many losses and logistics of adulthood,