In the end, we would just 'own' a small property. Perhaps 6 feet deep or even less. Either in a wooden box or in a metal casket.
Life is like a spin of nowhere. And we should live in the spirit of love. If not for love, what? It is because of love that we work. Not for ourselves primarily but for others: our loved ones, our children, our families. We prepare for the 'future'. As if it had not come. Yet today was a future of yesterdays. This year was just a dream of yesteryears. Today is the future.
What is life, therefore?
Whatever our answer is matters most. Especially with the way we perceive our life.
Why do you think were you born? Planned? Accident? Emotions? Love? Habit?
Now that you are here in this world, in this universe, what's your purpose? Just to live and experience how to live in this planet? To become an icon, a towering icon due to achievements and successes? After those, what? How many great men and women have come and passed in this world? Where are they now aside from our memory? We've heard of so many urban legends on ghost stories but I have yet to hear that the ghost of Albert Einstein has ever been felt by someone. Or perhaps the spirit of Adolf Hitler or of Douglas MacArthur. Or of Thomas Alva Edison or of William Shakespeare. They were great names. They left us with a lot of things which were practically a revelation of their persons. Are they totally gone? Or are they in heaven, too, like the so many saints that we have listed down as being favored by God?
If we are not Einstein or Edison or Shakespeare, then how would we be remembered by humanity once we are gone? That is the reason why we should discover our own niche in this world. Something that people will remember us by. Not just by the very people close to us and to our hearts by virtue of consanguinity with them, but more by the people who have wonderful recollections of how we have touched their lives.
Truly, life is what we make it. We can either choose to be ordinary. Or put an extra something to an ordinary life so that we, too, could become extraordinary.
We are a product of the choices we made. Therefore, choose wisely.
Life is like a spin of nowhere. And we should live in the spirit of love. If not for love, what? It is because of love that we work. Not for ourselves primarily but for others: our loved ones, our children, our families. We prepare for the 'future'. As if it had not come. Yet today was a future of yesterdays. This year was just a dream of yesteryears. Today is the future.
What is life, therefore?
Whatever our answer is matters most. Especially with the way we perceive our life.
Why do you think were you born? Planned? Accident? Emotions? Love? Habit?
Now that you are here in this world, in this universe, what's your purpose? Just to live and experience how to live in this planet? To become an icon, a towering icon due to achievements and successes? After those, what? How many great men and women have come and passed in this world? Where are they now aside from our memory? We've heard of so many urban legends on ghost stories but I have yet to hear that the ghost of Albert Einstein has ever been felt by someone. Or perhaps the spirit of Adolf Hitler or of Douglas MacArthur. Or of Thomas Alva Edison or of William Shakespeare. They were great names. They left us with a lot of things which were practically a revelation of their persons. Are they totally gone? Or are they in heaven, too, like the so many saints that we have listed down as being favored by God?
If we are not Einstein or Edison or Shakespeare, then how would we be remembered by humanity once we are gone? That is the reason why we should discover our own niche in this world. Something that people will remember us by. Not just by the very people close to us and to our hearts by virtue of consanguinity with them, but more by the people who have wonderful recollections of how we have touched their lives.
Truly, life is what we make it. We can either choose to be ordinary. Or put an extra something to an ordinary life so that we, too, could become extraordinary.
We are a product of the choices we made. Therefore, choose wisely.
