What will you leave behind you?
Media publishing has become a relatively quick and easy
but not necessarily effortless activity.
It is easy to shoot off some little negative sarcastic quip
but the extraordinary stuff, the inspirational and precious and beautiful
must still be sought for and created with great effort.
We are overdosing on information; the contents of thousands of minds
equal or superior to our own minds.
We are searching for those things that would make us more complete
and yet finding increasing emptiness and lack of individual worth.
Social boundaries still exist, and criminal activities are unbounded
and sin is easier and less recognizable than before.
Where do we want our minds to be really?
Do our minds belong in other peoples' bedrooms,
or in their wallets, or in their weaknesses?
Should we be looking for their faults when
we ourselves are not perfect?
If we cause others to exist in cages
we must accept the possibility
that someday we or our descendants
will also be caged.
What is freedom?
Is it money or lack of it?
Is it worry or lack of worry?
Is it experience or lack of experience?
Is it knowledge or ignorance?
We play out our roles in life, and struggle to
survive with the tools we have been given.
We are limited by our abilities, our skills,
our experience, our attitudes.
Making our way in this world can be so difficult.
We are subject to the whims and comments
and attitudes of others around us.
They can hurt us or they can help us.
Sometimes the greatest gift one person can give
to another person is a smile and a kind word.
Sometimes the human soul is dragged down and worn out.
Some souls thrive under adverse conditions.
They become the raging unstoppable fires that
force cannot subdue.
Others wear down and quickly pass out of existence
like candle flames.
In the end, the one thing that matters most
is the kind and honorable actions of
one human being to another
regardless of the roles they fill in life.
We will all be judged.
We will be judged by our correctness
and propriety or lack of these traits.
Our mediator in this judgment
will be our response or lack of response to
our most honorable feelings.
Integrity, commitment, faith, kindness,
and the willingness to stand for righteousness
even though we know we will lose everything
will be what matters most.
No matter what other voices are
speaking for other causes out there,
virtues and good behavior are never out of style.
In the end what will you be remembered for?
How would you like to be remembered?
What are you most likely to leave behind you when you die?
Try for good memories of you and for you.
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