Recently, and by recently I mean about 20 minutes ago, the thought passed through my mind that my time here could be over in the next 5 minutes, the next 5 years or maybe I'll stick around and see the next 50. It occurred to me how lovely that would be to see and experience that much life. I think about all the things that my grandmother was apart of, the lives that she touched, the moments that she witnessed and the feelings that she felt along the way. We're living longer now than so many generations before us did but we're doing so much less with our time. Ours it seems, is spent on things, and less on people. We fill our lives and our time with more wants and less needs. I wonder, at times, how much better off we would be if we decided to own less and have more. More time with family, more memories with friends, more willingness to give to those that are simply grateful to make it to the next day.
Every life has the ability to be amazing and either through simple existence or with a little added effort, every life has the ability to touch and change someone else's in an extraordinary way. Every soul, no matter how many years it has attached to it will leave behind something worthwhile as long as we focus on one another.
What we do for each other is what truly stands the test of time...we are our legacy.
~KG
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