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Giving Life Meaning

Giving Life Meaning

Have you thought about what you want people to say about you after you're gone? Can you hear the voice saying, " He was a great man." Or " She really will be missed."

What else do they say?

One of the strangest phenomena of life is to engage in a work that will last long after death. Isn't that a lot like investing all your money so that future generations can bare interest on it?

Perhaps, yet if you look deep in your own heart, you'll find something drives you to make this kind of contribution---something drives every human being to find a purpose that lives on after death.

Do you hope to memorialize your name? Have a name that is whispered with reverent awe? Do you hope to have your face carved upon 50 ft of granite rock?

Is the answer really that simple? Is the purpose of lifetime contribution an ego-driven desire for a mortal being to have an immortal name or is it something more?

A child alive today will die tomorrow. A baby that had the potential to be the next Einstein will die from complication is at birth. The circumstances of life are not set in stone.

We are not all meant to live life through to old age. We've grown to perceive life3 as a full cycle with a certain number of years in between. If all of those years aren't lived out, it's a tragedy.

A tragedy because a human's potential was never realized. A tragedy because a spark was snuffed out before it ever became a flame.

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