It’s a fact of life. We all share the same destination. At some point in the future, the world will write you a last goodbye.
Your family will be sitting together, wracking their brains amongst the grief and tears, trying to collect words onto paper that will best express who and how you were.
You may have experienced the death of a loved one and been a part of this yourself already. It’s not an easy time.
It will be the closure of your earthly life and people close to you will try their best to give you an amazing send off.
What will they say? What will they write?
- ”She was such a strong leader, changed the way I think, literally.”
- “She always took my bloody tweezers!”
- “He always made me smile. But he was soooo annoying!! 😂🤣😂”
- “We laughed until we couldn’t anymore 🤣🤣”
As humans we have one thing that seems to differentiate us from most other animals, we can think through time.
We know that in the future, we will meet a physical end and people will grieve. They will remember us and talk about us for a while. And then they won’t.
I wonder what they’ll remember? What will remain of you and your life after your physical body has run its cycle? This seems to be great motivation to live the best life we can.
It’s a miracle that we’re here in the first place. From the billions of factors that brought our parents together. From the one egg produced in ovulation and the millions of sperm that competed, you were chosen and created.
You are literally, a miracle.
Given the odds, and the limited time we have available in our lifetime, it’s a privilege to be alive. We’re not all born fully healthy and in a wonderful environment. But we have what we are born with, and why not make the best of it.
One day that family meeting around the fire or table will happen and you will be the subject.
Today is the day to start living really hard. We owe it to the people around us, our ancestors and the children coming after us.