Tag: death

What we leave behind

Posted on by philipdodson

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The key to life is to create memories that will last in the heads of those we leave behind at the end of our journeys.

People talk about legacies, and the legacy to leave is a great memory in the heads of all the people that we encounter in life.

During the journey, it is also important to create and leave great memories in our own heads too. None of us will reach the end of our journeys and reminisce about shit that we owned, we will look back on the activities we did with the people who mattered.

In order to create these we need to focus always on creating those opportunities, not on focusing our energies on working hard to earn money to buy a lifestyle.

What we leave behind in terms of possessions does not matter to those who get given them and certainly nothing to us. What will matter is what you leave in someone else’s head.

That requires clear communicating what we stand for, our values so that we surround ourselves with the right people, who will not judge and who will appreciate us for what we are. Then we have to think, do and say good things, we have to work to be ourselves and to make sure that we are kind and loving to ourselves.

That will enable us to be happy and happy people create good memories for themselves and leave great memories in the heads of the people they meet on the journey.

Give it a go

Posted on by philipdodson

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It’s funny how we live one life in our heads often, and then a separate one outside, in the real world.

So we have lots of thoughts, and we almost live out a dual life in our heads. When it comes to actually doing that thing out loud in the real world, we hesitate, and often just carry on with that thought in our heads.

Sometimes that’s ok, as we all at times have thoughts, that on reflection weren’t the right ones, and it is good that we do not share every single thing with the world.

But conversely, some of our very best stuff just remains in our heads, never giving a public airing. That is a shame, but it is how a good deal of life goes, for a good many people.

Imagine how many people went to their graves, perhaps with some of the greatest things that human kind could have created, and they never happened.

What a different world it could have been.

What if Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who came up with the internet, hadn’t bothered, what if Ernest Rutherford, who split the atom, hadn’t split it? What if…the list could be endless, and you are potentially the next ‘what if’ person. None of us realise what we are truly capable of and we only find out by doing it, by giving it a go and that is it.

Giving it a go, otherwise all that unused potential in all of us will go to the grave and rest there for all eternity.

Go out and try something new, something different.