The Dash

Today is the day. Tax time. Tick tock, the deadline is approaching. Most of you have heard the saying that there are only two certainties in life - death and taxes. Despite already mentioning both of these, today's topic is about neither, but will act as the introduction.

Most of you have been in a cemetery at one point in your life. And you will be again, pardon the pun. Among all the gravestones and markers, there is one thing universal on all of them. I know there is a last name, sometimes a relationship, a birthday, and the date of the ultimate end, sometimes an epitaph, but there is also one more thing that is more important than anything else and it is almost always overlooked. That is the dash, the dash between the beginning (our birth date) and the end (our death).

The dash really is you. What does your life mean? To you? To others? What have you done to make a difference in the brief period of time in history here among your fellow human beings?

Have you seen and experienced a full life? Have you made a difference in the lives of one other person, 10 other people, 100 others, 1000 others? Is mankind better off because of your existence and the fruits of your labors and knowledge?

Or, are you just another cog in the system? Are you just another monetized legal fiction whose labors are taxed to feed the greed and control of the wealthy global elite? Are you just another employee number to someone that probably doesn't even know your name? Are you just another mindless consumer buying whatever they tell you to buy? Are you just another person drowning in debt?

No one ever said on their deathbed that he should have spent more time at the office. No one that I know of wish that they had fewer friends.

Here's another expression for you - "Today is the first day of the rest of your life". Even if your answers to the insightful questions above are not what you want them to be, every day is an opportunity for you to change those answers. Every day is another chance for positive impact. Every day is your chance to make a difference in the lives around you.

What will you do today? And tomorrow? What will your legacy be after you are gone? What will your dash mean? As always, the choice is yours.

Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone.' "
Luke 20:17 (NIV)

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