Friday, December 17, 2010

M.E. (Merely Existing)

Do you exist?
It's a crazy question isn't it? I mean, certainly if you are reading this….you are alive, you are able to function……you exist.

The real question is, do you exist to other people?

Are you real to other people or are you just like an extra in a movie, walking around in the background, not really contributing to the main story, just offering some random movements from time to time.

Or

Are you living your life in such a way that if you had to move to a different state, that when the moving trucks pulled away, there would be tears shed by every household on your old street?

Do you matter to those around you?
Do you invest in the lives of others that you have contact with on a daily basis?

I am not saying that our goal is to leave people sad when we move on, but I am saying that the way we live should produce that by-product.

Are you making a difference in the lives around you?

If someone received a package on their front porch with no card claiming who it was from, would you make their list of people who might have left the gift?

When the snow hits while your neighbor is out of town and they come home to find their driveway shoveled, would they automatically assume that it was you who did it?

Is the most important word in your vocabulary, M.E.?
Are you just merely existing?


If you're not now……..start existing to others.