What Ya Think?

Where are you today in life? What year is it for you? What month? Count the months you've been here so far. How many more hours you got left? Minutes, seconds -- that's all we are in part. We are a bit of time, so many ounces of carbon-based life, so much protein and chemicals and minerals. Are you where you thought you'd be at this point? Plans derailed a bit back? What happens tomorrow?



The history of the world -- I'm not so sure about. Firstly, to believe everything "experts" tell us of the world is too much I think. They can't know everything. People get facts wrong about the living, the now, much less the past where those who witnessed are gone -- not to mention those things that occured that no one was even there TO witness, and all we got is evidence. Extrapolation is precise conjecture and conjecture is hog-wash. We really don't know what life's all about. Boy, I'm a ramblin' fool today!

My point is, just what is there is to this life? Who, or what, are you really serving? What's your motive, your take, your angle, your goal? Self? Is it all about self? As Tyler Durden tells us, "self improvement is masturbation."

What really remains of our time here? I believe it's what we do for others. Nothing else really matters. At the end of life we either die or we end up dying in a place where others take care of us. What an end.

Titles and testimonies -- those are the two things we really build in life. "Dr. Soinso..." or "Attorney Suchansuch" or how 'bout "I have a Masters in..." and so forth. Those are titles. They serve to serve you here. They impress others. They get you a good job -- maybe. They make YOU feel good about YOUR self, but at the end ... on the day you're buried and the folks go back to the church and eat 'tato salad ... what do those "titles" serve you then? What will people really be saying about you? How many tears will be shed for you? Maybe your family will cry -- that's a given, but how many people will show up that you've really made a difference in their lives? And, heck, maybe some of your family won't even cry -- or be there!

Testimonies though ... you can't get 'em in school or college or the university. There's no corporate title that attributes testimonies. Testimonies are the things people say "about" you -- the stories of how YOU made a difference in their life. Not being consumed with yourself, not looking out for #1, but giving of your time and energy to others -- that builds testimonies. At the end of it all, if you've given to others, then at your funeral maybe people won't be in such a big hurry to eat potato salad. Maybe people won't be thinking of getting out of that suit, of how much weight edna's put on, maybe, instead, they'll want to tell the tales of you, your life, the difference you made, how they owe it all to you. Maybe their children will even remember you at their parent's funerals and recite the same stories, the same testimonies.

Testimonies make you live here beyond your life. Your titles are buried with you. Your testimonies carry your name for generations....