What About Time
Do you ever wonder bloggers, about how time passes? I often do and I wonder what the future will bring. When I say how time passes I don't entirely mean in which direction or the shape of time, though I have thought about that a great deal too. No, I mean what lies ahead. Do you always look to what will be, or to what is? Someone once told me the best way to live your life is as if you only had a day left. Financially, we all know this to be a very unwise decision, but what they meant was live life to the fullest. Don't live in the past, just learn from it. The same goes for the future. Don't live for it, but don't throw it away. It's all very simple really. If you live life to the fullest by making friends and influencing the world around you, you build a legacy. One that will last through time.
But then the question gets asked, what do you want your legacy to be? What do you want to be remembered for? This is something I have thought long and hard about. Here is what I want to be remembered as. I want to be the person that launched people into their greatness. The person that was there for them in the times that no one else understood their ideas and decisions. The one that stood quietly in the background that rarely spoke a word. The one who didn't want the lime light, but wanted the best for those in it. I want to be the one that made them get the best rather than the good enough. I want to be the person that you never see, hear of, speak to, or even remember existed, but you see, hear, and remember those that have come after me. That is what I want out of life.
To most people they would think, why? Why would you not want to be the great one? Why would you not want to have the lime light, or the credit for what you did? Why do you want to be behind the background, and not remembered? Why, why, why? Here's why. If I'm always trying to be in the lime light, I'm going to miss the people that should be. If I'm always vying for the attention, I can't push the people around me to be better if I myself am cutting others down to get ahead. I miss the wall flowers, and the mousey people. I miss the loud and quiet people. I miss everyone else because I'm focused on me. What good is my life if I am all I see? Life is about the relationship we build. The people we interact with, and the growing we all do and are a part of in other people.
In my job, most people don't even know I exist. If they know I exist they don't know my name. If on the off chance they know my name, they don't bother to take the time to get to know me. I'm just the kitchen minion. Nothing more. Sometimes that can be hard, because many of the things that happen or that they eat are actually my thoughts and ideas. They are things I have put in place, or created from my imagination. Many of the recipes we use are surprisingly, mine. Many are my bosses, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot that are mine. The office system that is in place is mostly systems I have adapted and reworked, or created to actually function the way they should. There are many things that most people would never even think of that I have created to make things run smoothly. Now, please understand, this is not me tooting my own horn, this is me giving you a little taste of what I actually do, and how I live out my legacy, because when it comes time to give credit where credit is due, many times, I don't exist. It has taken me a long time to come to the point where I realized I am the launch pad, and I am content with that. I don't mind. I look forward to the challenge of what I do, no matter what it is.
As I look to the future, I realize that I want to teach my children that whether it is greatness or being the launch pad to it, nothing is without value. I look forward to seeing how time will pass for my little family, and the people we influence.
But then the question gets asked, what do you want your legacy to be? What do you want to be remembered for? This is something I have thought long and hard about. Here is what I want to be remembered as. I want to be the person that launched people into their greatness. The person that was there for them in the times that no one else understood their ideas and decisions. The one that stood quietly in the background that rarely spoke a word. The one who didn't want the lime light, but wanted the best for those in it. I want to be the one that made them get the best rather than the good enough. I want to be the person that you never see, hear of, speak to, or even remember existed, but you see, hear, and remember those that have come after me. That is what I want out of life.
To most people they would think, why? Why would you not want to be the great one? Why would you not want to have the lime light, or the credit for what you did? Why do you want to be behind the background, and not remembered? Why, why, why? Here's why. If I'm always trying to be in the lime light, I'm going to miss the people that should be. If I'm always vying for the attention, I can't push the people around me to be better if I myself am cutting others down to get ahead. I miss the wall flowers, and the mousey people. I miss the loud and quiet people. I miss everyone else because I'm focused on me. What good is my life if I am all I see? Life is about the relationship we build. The people we interact with, and the growing we all do and are a part of in other people.
In my job, most people don't even know I exist. If they know I exist they don't know my name. If on the off chance they know my name, they don't bother to take the time to get to know me. I'm just the kitchen minion. Nothing more. Sometimes that can be hard, because many of the things that happen or that they eat are actually my thoughts and ideas. They are things I have put in place, or created from my imagination. Many of the recipes we use are surprisingly, mine. Many are my bosses, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot that are mine. The office system that is in place is mostly systems I have adapted and reworked, or created to actually function the way they should. There are many things that most people would never even think of that I have created to make things run smoothly. Now, please understand, this is not me tooting my own horn, this is me giving you a little taste of what I actually do, and how I live out my legacy, because when it comes time to give credit where credit is due, many times, I don't exist. It has taken me a long time to come to the point where I realized I am the launch pad, and I am content with that. I don't mind. I look forward to the challenge of what I do, no matter what it is.
As I look to the future, I realize that I want to teach my children that whether it is greatness or being the launch pad to it, nothing is without value. I look forward to seeing how time will pass for my little family, and the people we influence.
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