What Will Matter

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will
pass on to someone else. Your wealth, fame, and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

It will not matter what you owned or what you owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear. Your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire too.

The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won't matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on. It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought but what you built. Not what you got but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success but your significance. Not what you learned but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion or valor that encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence but your character. Not how many people you know, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

What will matter is not your memories but the memories of those who loved you.What will matter is how long you will be remembered by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

Choose a life that matters.

My friend Cindy sent this to me and I thought it was beautiful. It really makes us reflect on the question: When I am gone how do I want to be remember and by whom? That should keeps up making effort to do better. As the old saying goes...Know better, do better!
Namaste.