What Do You Really Own?
Look at everything around you — all your stuff. Then look in the mirror. Everything you see, the tangibles and even your body, will become rust or dust in 100 years. It’s all on loan. You own none of it.
So don’t get too attached to any of it.
A dent in your car, a broken vase, a lost earring…stuff. Yeah, sure, it sucks when something you value is lost, broke or stolen. I’m still looking for a book I swear I loaned out last year and a savings bond missing since I moved thirteen years ago. Annoying. Inconvenient. But not the end of the world.
What belongs to you?
Your time. It’s all you own. And even that is only until you get your “next assignment” — nice way to say after you’ve taken your last breath.
While you’re here you get to choose how you spend your minutes and days.
Remember two things mentioned on this blog before: the average lifespan in days is 35,000 and the number of minutes in each of those days is 1,440.
Don’t waste it coveting goods.
I have some of my Dad’s oil paintings and trust me, I’d be really upset if they were damaged or lost. The only real value in them is sentimental. Every moment I spend dusting and admiring his work, a bit of joy wells up in me. It is time well spent. Someday, hopefully, my kids or grandkids will continue to enjoy them.
That’s the most we can do with our “stuff”. Pass it on. But our time is a precious commodity. As Henry David Thoreau said: “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
BE F-G AWESOME TODAY!
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