In 100 years, like in 2124, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.
Our descendants will hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather’s father?
After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone’s bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history’s oblivion. We won’t even be memories.
If we paused one day to analyze these thoughts, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all really was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.
Always having more, no time for what’s really valuable in this life. I’d change all this to live and enjoy the walks I’ve never taken, these hugs I didn’t give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn’t have time for.
Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy.
And we waste it day after day with greed and intolerance.
~ Author Unknown
This post is so true that it hits home squarely in the level of hatred around at the moment. If we can see beyond the greed, corruption and looking out for ME culture, we can see that what is important isn’t striving for more, it’s the loved ones we have lost, those we have shut out because of always looking for more. Thank you for this timely reminder of what is important to us all.
This post hits home so hard! It’s a powerful inspiration to shift our focus away from chasing after more and towards living more fully in the present. Thanks for sharing .