about how to live life can be summed up in this one quote…
Live life like you want your obituary to read.
~Tammy Cobb
So simple but so powerful.
I was reading obituaries one day, and yes I do on occasion read them. I know. It seems weird, huh? I think I am going to stop, though. I am starting to see more and more people my age in there, and that is getting to be quite unnerving and totally disagrees with the thought in my head that I am eighteen years old and going to live forever. I never could understand my parents reading them until I got older and realized that after living my whole life in the same area that I had a lot of connections and realized these people were passing and funerals were over before I even heard about it. So, I was reading them one day recently and came across a woman’s obituary that made me think, “Wow! What a well-lived life!” From her obituary I could tell how much she loved, how much she gave and how much she was loved. I don’t think any of us ever intended to live our life to be the very brief, impersonal obituary with a horrid photo (I kid you not. One time I saw someone’s driver’s license photo being used for their picture.) that we many times see. But yet sometimes life just gets away from of us. Either we die too soon or time just got away from of us, and we found ourselves at the end before we knew it.
Take this day and make a list of the person you want to be, what you want others to say about you and think about you when you are gone, the legacy you want to leave, what you can pass on to the next generations to live on forever and just do it! Time waits for no man.
