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I just came across this poem, and needed to share.

What Will Matter
By Michael Josephson

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours, or minutes.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass on to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevant.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won’t matter where you come from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.
It won’t matter whether you are beautiful or brilliant.
Your gender, skin color, ethnicity 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, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and 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 knew you, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of 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. It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

Choose to live a life that matters.

The last couple of weeks have been physically challenging.  Whether its a shoulder, lower back, hamstring, tooth, you name it, one of us in our workout group has it.  And on top of that, I feel as though I’m falling apart. Now it’s my thumb.  Really? How’s a girl supposed to dead lift with a bad thumb?

My thumb hurts so much my shoulder pain is nothing now.  But it doesn’t stop there.  My head hasn’t been clear, my stomach has been gurgling, and my calf continues to shoot little pangs of tightness from time to time.  Am I truly falling apart?  What have I done differently in the last two weeks to feel this way?

• Tried to climb a tree and crashed – leg first – fell onto back
• Carrying a new 23 lb puppy around
• Emergency room with 20yo
• Out-patient surgery with 20yo
• Broken fridge – ate the food anyway
• Diarrhea for 10 days, and still going strong!
• Can’t eat anything but the BRAT diet for a week (me eating white bread!)
• Head-butt
• 3 Work proposals in 4 days
• Doctor visit/X-ray
• Torn ligament in thumb

Well, now that I made a list it provides much more context.  Throw in an angry pre-teen and you’ve got yourself a one-way ticket to lala land.

I could use a day of reckoning.  Just one day to stop. Believe me I attempted to make small adjustments:

• I tried meditating last week, but I just couldn’t clear my head.
• I tried relaxing by my friend’s pool, but I went home to do work.
• I slept in one day until 11:45, but I felt like I wasted the day.
• I tried not to drink any wine.
• I tried to drink more wine.

That’s a lot of bullets.  I’m exhausted now just looking at all of them.  And what will tonight bring?

Who knows.

One thing is for sure, the sun’s shining, I have an amazing family, friends, and most of all, life.

But, note to self, keep taking your vitamins just in case!

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