What is important?
These three words often have people baffled for a few minutes before they start to talk about their family, work, hobbies and sport. These are all important items in our life but how many of us truly understand what is important. I am reading a book called “Tuesday’s with Morrie” which is an incredible story about a dying professor.
Ok I know straight away that many of you will tune out because of the word DYING, thats unfortunate because Morrie says “You can’t begin to live until you have faced up to death”.
I wonder how important mowing the lawn, cleaning the house, working long hours, sport, an expensive car or boat and the million other things we cram into our lives will be when we have days left on this earth.
I know you are probably saying but we have to work and if we do it good then other people will look at us and know we have achieved a lot in our life time and we can buy the expensive jewellery and cars and boats. This is an interesting concept because I doubt you could tell me who started Telstra or Woolworths and I would bet most people don’t even know who started McDonald’s and that he was more interested in property than burgers and yet these businesses are worth billions of dollars.
The plain truth is when you are staring death in the eyes you won’t be thinking about the money you made or the cars you bought or the expensive holidays overseas you will be wishing you spent more time with your family and that you took the time to be in the moment, to talk to your friends and to listen to the birds in the trees and the crashing of the waves. Nature and family will be more important to you than anything else.
It’s interesting that our culture is one set up to reduce the human species to nothing. Polution, over eating, disease, waste and many other man made problems are slowly crippling us. We should NOT buy into this culture we SHOULD create our own culture which cherishes family and nature, which takes time to smell the flowers and listen to the birds which understands what ARE the important things in life.
I could go on forever about this but instead buy “Tuesday’s with Morrie” and read it for yourself make up your own mind of what is important before it’s too late.
Kyoshi Brad
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