What Will Matter

What will matter
Ready or not,
some day it will all
come to an end.

There will be no more sunrises,
No minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected,
Whether treasured or forgotten
Will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame
and temporal power
Will shrivel to irrelevance.
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 expire.
The wins and losses
that once seemed
So important will fade away.

It won't matter where
you came from
Or what side of the tracks
you lived on at the end.
It won't matter whether you
were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender
and skin color
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,
or 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 you knew,
But how many will feel
a lasting loss when your gone.

What will matter is
not your memories
But the memories that
live in 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.
Michael Josephson
Used with permission

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10--15--2007