How full is your life????
I’ve just returned from the funeral of a beautiful 22 year old girl, a friend of my son’s who died suddenly on Thursday.
I sat in the Church and looked at the photo’s around the altar of a vibrant, georgeous young woman, who this time last week was happy and well. I looked at her wonderful artwork displayed around the white coffin and I looked at the sad, desperate faces of her family and multitude of friends who had come to say their last good-byes.
I listened as family members and her mates talked about her empathy, her compassion and her fun-loving, happy personality.
So much love and so much sadness BUT SO many achievements. The stories I heard all told of a full life and a treasured life. She had managed to squeeze so much into her short 22 years it made me think.
As I have said so many times before. Our worth is not measured by our business acumen, how much money we have or how ’successful’ we are. It is measured by our relationships and what we leave behind us when we die.
Bronwyn left behind hundreds of people whose lives were enriched just by knowing her………….in her short life she had given so much more than some of us ever give, even after 60 or 70 years of living.
Sometimes we need to STOP and reflect on what we are doing with our lives. Are we sharing our gifts with others or are we forgetting the most important things?
We need to think about what we are offering humanity, and if we don’t like the answer…………do something about it, before you run out of time.