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I have a confession to make.....Sometimes when I'm really bored at the office I'll just randomly click through blog after blog of random people I don't know. It seems like through my boredom though I often times end up learning a lot through the lives of complete strangers. No....I'm not like a pyscho blog stalker or anything, I only do this when I'm bored and killing time but I've been finding out how much there is to learn from others experience.
It's somehow easier to learn from their experiences when the knowledge isn't asked for but instead stumbled upon - I think because a lot times it's just what I needed or something that i'm going through in life too and I know that the experience I"m reading about in someone's else's life is sincere and the advice I get out of that experience is advice that comes with no hidden motives.
Anyway...today I stumbled upon a blog by a young lady my age that really challenged me. She was a single mom and had 2 children. Reading her blog really put me to shame. She was so hungry to get more out of life live a life of integrity to leave a great legacy for her children.
It really got me thinking.......What kind of legacy am I going to leave behind when I die? Will people say I was passionate person that was full of love or will I simply be remembered for just being mediocre?
Life is so short and everytime I have a birthday I'm reminded of the fact. I keep thinking I'll make the most of the my time later, or I'll be the best I can be later. I keep thinking I'll really make a difference in someone life.....but I keep pushing it back. Before it was when I was a young single lady I wanted to make a difference in the lives of some of the younger girls in our church. After that it was.....I'm married....I have the opportunity to be a good example for young people as to what a loving marriage can be, I can be a good example for young dating couples.....instead I look to the future though.....someday when I'm older and have kids I can be an example to my kids.....I'm sure when the times comes I'll immediately look to the future for the next "example" I can be - but in all of that I keep looking to what I can be sometime in the future and so easily miss WHO I should be now. I don't take life right at this moment seriously enough.
Carpe Diem - I need to seize the moment!
I so often miss out though because I'm too busy looking to the future.
I do want to leave behind a great legacy....but if i wait till I'm dead then it's too late. What am I doing today to make a difference? That's not a questions I'm very comfortable with answering because I know the answer isn't something I could be proud of - instead I want to use the answer to that question to constantly challenge me.
It's somehow easier to learn from their experiences when the knowledge isn't asked for but instead stumbled upon - I think because a lot times it's just what I needed or something that i'm going through in life too and I know that the experience I"m reading about in someone's else's life is sincere and the advice I get out of that experience is advice that comes with no hidden motives.
Anyway...today I stumbled upon a blog by a young lady my age that really challenged me. She was a single mom and had 2 children. Reading her blog really put me to shame. She was so hungry to get more out of life live a life of integrity to leave a great legacy for her children.
It really got me thinking.......What kind of legacy am I going to leave behind when I die? Will people say I was passionate person that was full of love or will I simply be remembered for just being mediocre?
Life is so short and everytime I have a birthday I'm reminded of the fact. I keep thinking I'll make the most of the my time later, or I'll be the best I can be later. I keep thinking I'll really make a difference in someone life.....but I keep pushing it back. Before it was when I was a young single lady I wanted to make a difference in the lives of some of the younger girls in our church. After that it was.....I'm married....I have the opportunity to be a good example for young people as to what a loving marriage can be, I can be a good example for young dating couples.....instead I look to the future though.....someday when I'm older and have kids I can be an example to my kids.....I'm sure when the times comes I'll immediately look to the future for the next "example" I can be - but in all of that I keep looking to what I can be sometime in the future and so easily miss WHO I should be now. I don't take life right at this moment seriously enough.
Carpe Diem - I need to seize the moment!
I so often miss out though because I'm too busy looking to the future.
I do want to leave behind a great legacy....but if i wait till I'm dead then it's too late. What am I doing today to make a difference? That's not a questions I'm very comfortable with answering because I know the answer isn't something I could be proud of - instead I want to use the answer to that question to constantly challenge me.
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