The author of this is not known, but it sends a powerful message about how we spend our time.

A 100 years from now, in 2123, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.

Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. One day, everything we own, even the fancy car, will be worth nothing and owned by someone we don’t know.

Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather’s father?

After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone’s bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history’s oblivion. We won’t even be memories.

If we paused one day to analyze these facts, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream was to achieve it all.

If we could only think about this, surely our approaches and our thoughts would change, and we would be different people.

When you retire you have more, no time for what’s really valuable in this life. You can make up for the lost moments by living, laughing, and cherishing every moment with family and loved ones. This gives them and you beautiful moments to remember and fill our lives with joy.

And yet some waste the opportunity to laugh, love and cherish our loved ones, day after day with greed, avarice, and intolerance.

Originally Published on https://boomersnotsenior.blogspot.com/

Royce Shook Blogger

I served as a teacher, a teacher on Call, a Department Head, a District Curriculum, Specialist, a Program Coordinator, and a Provincial Curriculum Coordinator over a forty year career. In addition, I was the Department Head for Curriculum and Instruction, as well as a professor both online and in person at the University of Phoenix (Canada) from 2000-2010.

I also worked with Special Needs students. I gave workshops on curriculum development and staff training before I fully retired