What Will Matter

Source : "I Remember Mecca " Album by Ben Suadi, 2010

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 we collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Our wealth, fame, and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what we owned or what we were owned.
Our grudges, resentments, and frustations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, our hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do-lists will expire.
The wins and losses.
That once seemed so important to us will fade away.
It won't matter where we came from, or on what side of the tracks we lived, at the end.
It wont matter whether we were beautiful or brilliant, even our gender and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter?
How will the value of our days be measured?
What will matter is not what we learned but what we taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity,
compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate our example.
What will matter is not how many people we knew but how many will fell a lasting lost when we're gone.
What will matter is how long we will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident, it's not a matter of circumstances but of choice
Choose to live a life that matters.

Author : M. Josephson