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What Will Matter
trbutler
Published on December 28, 2012
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Some time ago I read a poem by Michael Josephson and was reminded of this today. We here at WA have not only and opportunity to change our own lives, but the lives of others as well. What an opportunity to make an impact. Read the following and ask yourself what kind of a legacy do you want do leave.
What Will Matter:
For each of us eventually whether were ready or not, some day it will come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no more minutes or hours or days.
All the things you collected, wither treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame, and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance, it will not matter what you owned or owed.
Your grudges, resentments and frustrations and jalousies will finally disappear, so too your hopes plans ambitions and to do list will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away; it won’t matter where you came from, or on which side of the tracks you lived at the end. It won’t matter if your beautiful or brilliant, even your gender and 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, what will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched empowered and encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence but your character, what will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you gone? What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of you that lived in those who loved you. A life lived that matters is not of circumstance but of choice.
What Will Matter:
For each of us eventually whether were ready or not, some day it will come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no more minutes or hours or days.
All the things you collected, wither treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame, and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance, it will not matter what you owned or owed.
Your grudges, resentments and frustrations and jalousies will finally disappear, so too your hopes plans ambitions and to do list will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away; it won’t matter where you came from, or on which side of the tracks you lived at the end. It won’t matter if your beautiful or brilliant, even your gender and 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, what will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched empowered and encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence but your character, what will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you gone? What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of you that lived in those who loved you. A life lived that matters is not of circumstance but of choice.
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