Life

Our family just lost someone, she lived a long and happy life, almost reached 100 years of age. This event and the fact that I'm not getting any younger, actually reaching what humans call middle age, makes me think about where I've been and what I want to do with the rest of my life.

We all have a finite amount of time here, we all come and go, and when we are gone most of us are forgotten within a generation at most two. There are very few of us that ever live to leave a lasting impression on, society, humanity or the planet. Perhaps a handful of scientists; Newton, Einstein, to mention but two, whose discoveries will forever change the way that we look at the world around us, or perhaps a politican or two, and a handful of business leaders. The rest of us will pass away into utter obsecurity.

Now I know this sounds depressing, but this is just the way it is. Nothing we can really do about it, we just have to accept the fact that we will not live on and that what we do on this earth really doesn't mean a whole lot in the grand scheme of things ....... or does it.

Lets take the 10,000,000 foot view of what we are and what each of us does day to day. For the most part we all get up in the morning, we eat, we go into the world, we interact with one another, (Even if you think you don't in some small way we all do.) We are a community, a global community, and we all impact each other, most of the time in ways that you just don't realize. The guy/gal who is stressed out at work and takes out his/herfrustrations on a clerk in a store, to the missionary who gives their life for the betterment of others we all have an impact on one another. So now you expect me to say something like "Lets all be nice to one another and the world will be a wonderful place to live." Well, no, that's not it at all.

Life is a balance, between good and bad, right and wrong, easy and hard for example. We all have our good and bad days, we have all been right as well as wrong, and have hard days as well as easy days. Balance! There are those people that live hard, lives, they work hard, they have hard problems at home, and have to deal with hard decisions and consequences, there are those people that seem to have easy lives, almost like life was handed to them and they can do no wrong. The mass majority of us live in the flotsam in between where we have both hard and easy moments.

This is the trick, take each moment and decide for yourself what you want or what is right. This may mean that you have to work hard at a job that you don't really like because with the money you make you can buy the things you want, or go to the places that give you enjoyment, balance. If you have money you may have other problems, "friends" may want your time or resources or you may have to protect yourself from predators at all times, again balance. What we all need to do is find a balance that works for each and everyone of us at an individual level and for each moment and believe it or not ..... your life will work itself out.

Now on the topic of balance, if you can find that middle ground where you give as much as you take your life will take a positive turn, you will be happier, and more importantly the people around you will be happier. This in turn lends toward bringing balance to others as well and on and on it spreads, like warm butter on bread, from one person to another. The impact that one person can make on those around them by finding balance can be astounding.

You may just be remembered for something like that.

This is my two cents .... please comment.