So then I started to think about 1000 years from now....what will be left of my stay on this earth? What will matter...to be honest probably fark all.
So then what is the point. Is this a depressing thought or an incredibly liberating thought. If I were to die tomorrow as all of my ancestors have before me. What legacy will I leave? Some pretty pictures drowned in the sea of pretty pictures. Some images that are special to beautiful people whom I have had the blessing of sharing my life with?
In the end I don't think much matters to me except the quality of the moment I am in, right? How much light I bring to people in the moment I share with them. What I can give...not what I take. WHo is remembered for what they take? Hitler?
Who is remembered for what they give? Your favourite grandfather/grandmother. Mother Theresa, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tsu, Martin Luther King, Gandhi ? So what am I giving today? How can I become a vehicle for getting more love into the world it might not make a heck of a lot of difference in the long term but it beats self absorbed taking any day.
What if everyday I figured out how I could give a little gift to the world each day? An anonymous little match light of love that over the course of my life would add up to quite a blazing warm fire of peace that was created simply because the universe saw a purpose in having me be brought to the earth. What if everyone did that? Found a way each day to step solidly out of what they needed, wanted, their own little self absorbed bubble that we tend to live in and did something small but loving in the world. What would that world look like?
