So which is it? I personally like to think that I am dying to live making each day count, but there are of course those days where you feel like you are merely existing and marking off one more day until your last. Not in the morbid I want death to come sense, but existing on this planet without making even the slightest contribution.
Today I was thinking...as I spend (too) much of my time doing...what would people say about me at my funeral? I have heard this question posed before so this is not some huge philosophical breakthrough, but I actually took the time to think about it today. More importantly what would I like for people to say/think at my funeral. I came up with a long list of things and definitely not all good things. So I thought some more...what can I do to live a life that is full of meaning that gives people something to talk about once I am gone. To clarify- what other's perceive is not my motivation rather a way to monitor my progress of meeting the internal goals I have set for myself.
This is where the blog was born :) I want to track for myself my journey to well- "The End!"
I am not a technically correct writer by any means so please close your eyes to my blaring grammatical errors. I am a person that believes in efficiency, and time spent editing is time wasted. If you read the blog and get the message then hey it served the purpose.
As all the ideas for a blog were swirling in my head I couldn't help but remember back to when I was a typical (well maybe not so typical) 7 year old getting ready for bed. My parents enforced the noraml night time regimen, and as I was going through my nightly shower I would develop a lecture. Yes a lecture at 7...because of course I already knew everything and needed to teach everyone else all that I knew! That day the lecture may be on "why you shouldn't force your kids to eat cold spinach" or whatever lovely event had inspired that night's mental conversation.
I look back and laugh, but really it is evident that I wanted a life that was able to help/teach others.
Feel free to follow along :) I hope to put on paper some of the things that matter to me in life. Some of the things that I do to make a difference. And f course some of the failures in trying to do so. I think it is important to have a chronicle to look back on in dark days to remind yourself of all the lovely ones that have been and will be in the future. A day is justs that one 24 hour period of time. What shall I make of this one?
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