It takes but one breath to make the difference between life and death - really and metaphorically speaking. For, every thought and every decision, every action... it's just that---one breath away...
Think - we toil over, agonize over, debate and discuss threadbare, those issues that are to us important-but-in-reality-not-crucial-to-life, and after many hours, don't reach any kind of solution, whereas, the really critical concerns are unobtrusively resolved with the turn of just one breath...