Ready or not,
Someday it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises,no minutes,hours or days
It won't matter where you came from
Or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin colour will be irrelevant.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion and courage,
What will matter is not your competence, but your character
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.
It's not a matter of circumstance,
but of choice.
This was an article i read in the Times Of India edition dated December 29,2007.Simple,and yet so beautifully it has a lot of meaning about what we are and the lives we lead.
3 comments:
thanks for the snippet ... its hard to notice such stuff in colorful Times Of India !!!
oh,ya,you have to search.but you do come across some good pearls of wisdom!thanks for commenting!
its really very beautiful...simple yet so true...
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