“Live a Life That Matters”
Author Unknown
Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten,
will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shivel to irrelevance.
Your grudges, resentments, frustations, and jealousies will finaly disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do list will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won’t matter where you came from, or on what side of the
tracks you lived at the end.
It won’t matter whether you are beautiful and brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built;
Not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, ut your significance.
What will matter is not what you have learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that
enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew.
But howmany will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter is not your memories.
But the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered
by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident.
Its not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose a life that matters.