Reflections on Life and Legacy

Have you ever thought about this?

In a hundred years, so like 21, 23,

we will all be buried with our families and friends.

Strangers will live in our homes

that we worked so hard to build,

and someone else will own everything we have today.

Most of our possessions will be given away

or thrown out and destroyed,

including the car that we spent a fortune on

and will probably be scrapped.

Our descendants will hardly know who we are,

nor will they remember us.

I mean, how many of us know who our grandfather's father was?

After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years,

and then we're just a portrait on someone's wall.

And a few decades later, our history, photos,

and deeds disappear into history's oblivion.

We won't even be memories.

If we pause one day to analyze these questions,

perhaps we would understand how pointless it is

for us to worry about 95% of the things

that consume our minds daily.

If we could only think about this surely,

our approaches, our thoughts would change

and we would do things differently.

Perhaps we would feel more free to enjoy ourselves

and our lives that we're living.

And remember the saying,

if it's not gonna matter in five years,

don't spend more than five minutes being upset by it.