We enjoy what we accumulate in a life time, but the world enjoys what we create and leave behind. Of all the creations man alone is aware of death. Man alone knows his life has a limited lifespan. The context of death puts a premium on life. The background of death demands a purpose and meaning from one’s life. I want it to be recorded that I lived. I don’t want to be a statistical entity, whose arrival, survival and departure, all of it remained unnoticed by the world. Not for mere personal gains but it is my way of acknowledging that when god breathed in my nostrils and gave me life, he intended for me to use it well.
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it what ever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up before I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations”- George Bernard Shaw
The Splendid Torch Part 1
– November 12, 2009Posted in: Social
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