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Life After Death

Today I was driving to the Bay Area and talking about how Paul Walker died so tragically this past weekend. I started reading about what celebrities were saying about Walker and to sum it up, he was a down-to-earth guy who knew there was more to life than a glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. He started a charity to give back to people less fortunate who faced tragedy because of natural disasters. I started to wonder, why is it always the good people who go? 

It's never the people who this world would be better without. Then I realized, if the good ones weren't taken away, life wouldn't be put in perspective. We wouldn't realize just how much we have to lose.

I started to think about death and if I were to die tomorrow, what would my legacy be? What would people say about me? I hope I would be remembered for good things, not bad.  

 Steve Jobs said that thinking about death is the only way he knew how to live.  Maybe we all need to think that way so we live each day to the fullest. Everyday is truly a gift  and we will only be so lucky if we make our time here memorable.

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust" - T.S. Eliot

We do not actually fear death--we fear that no one will notice our absence or remember us when we're gone. Make life memorable.


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