What Makes A Life Memorable?

[Sally]

What Makes A Life Memorable?

It is easy to see what makes a famous person famous

Difficult is to look at a normal life lived by each of us

With no cheering crowds to spur us on how can we tell its worth

If anything that we say or do will resound beyond our time on Earth

Maybe it is so much simpler than that search for fame

No need for history to carry on any one person's name

If through small acts and simple kind deeds

We fulfill another human's most basic needs

Then have we not set into motion a greater movement

Than by trying to accumulate more money than the mint

In a world of plenty we see so many without enough

Still we hold as idols those who made life so tough

More people admire millionaires and want to grab for so much more

Than want to be like Mother Teresa living her life serving the poor

For people who changed the world history holds a space

Take care because the good and evil each have their place

You would like to be remembered with the Buddha, the Christ and Gandhi

While also remembered are Hitler, Attila and Jack the Ripper to name three

It seems that the thing to do is to follow your convictions

Be true to yourself and never second guess your actions

We all have within us a sense of right and wrong

Some of us have let it lie dormant far too long

Given to us as a gift handed down from one generation to another

We need but to look inside to know to treat each as a sister or brother

Yet we are persuaded by others to feel the actual need for more

And told that a sense of morals is old fashioned and such a bore

To be remembered should not be the goal or even the mission

History may decide to forget my name you have my permission

I am living my life for myself and in the way that I should

By just following the model of do no harm do only good

My fondest dream is that I will not be remembered in any form

Because doing the right thing has for so long become the norm

We have been given the same message from people and from above

Share your food, share your money and above all share your love

[Carolyn Marie]

Good and true words, Sally, and very wise as well. Thanks for this.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Lacey Lynne]

^Sally:

^{Namaste Lacey}

[Guest]

Hi Sally,

My Zen Master some 40 years ago said, "No tracks!", referring to footprints in the sand.

You'll leave tracks, my dear. You will be remembered...

Love, Megan

[Guest miss kindheart]

A very beautiful poem Sally

<<< hug >>>

Be true to yourself great words to live by

Try and look for the good in everything and everyone, it is thier

Take care sweet sally

Always try and be good

vanna

[Guest Juniper Blue]

A Beautiful Poem from a Beautiful Heart!

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Sally,

Your loving kindess transcends space and time.

You are such a wonderfully beautiful person.

All my LOVE.

Brenda

[Guest Karen K]

Sally,

It is a very heart warming peom, one worthy of repetition to the many. Thank you.

Laura Jane

[Guest Melancholy]

Clever, Very.

What good is fame if it's not for doing something good?

The meaning of life isn't to be given by people to others, I think. A life that has meaning only because others think so is a hollow meaning. I could die very, very rich. But if I kept all my money and regarded everyone as a theif, I would die very lonely. Having done nothing but keep my earnings to myself.

I think, if you have, at the end of your life, made one person's life better than it was before, then that's enough. Because that person will go on to do something more, to be more than what they were. And the people they affect will go on to be more, too. And it goes on. In this way, we improve our species as a whole. One person's act of kindness makes another see the world differently. One joins a website with no hope and becomes one to talk of change and optimism. By being better, we raise others up. And if at the end of your life, all you've done is be a kindly stranger that helped someone out of a bad situation one time, then that's alright. Because they will be better for it. A family deprived of one "insignificant" memeber is much poorer for the experiences they'll never have.