The Day We're Born We Start To Die: It's what you do in between your begining and your end that others will remember. There are some people who are born to greatness, it's something automatic about them that without their ever realizing it, their path is predtermined. Fated. Destined. There are others who also have paths laid out for them, but they live lives of mediocracy or in worn and tattered clothes getting their meals from a soup kitchen. Some fall into good things by chance, others work very hard reaching for the American Dream.
It doesn't matter who you are or what your station in life is, no matter what we think, we all leave our mark. We all have things about us worth remembering. We've all touched at least one someone and changed their life in some way. I guess what I am trying to put across is that you don't have to be super rich, a doctor, actor or politician to leave a mark of yourself on this world. You may view yourself as just the average everyday sort and still be a powefull force in someone else's life, without ever realizing it. It can be something you've said or a deed you've done that so alters someones perception about who they are and inspires them to improve upon themselves to a degree that they in turn leave their mark on someone else as being that other person's inspiration. You alone can set in motion a chain of events all the while thinking you're no one special!
I am just an average person, but I know the marks I'll be leaving when my time to part company comes. My children. They are my greatest accomplishments, a gift I was given and bequeath to the world. They can, and I bet they will leave their mark on a multitude of others. They've already left their marks on me just by existing.
Another mark of mine, I share with my husband and that is what love should be. I want my kids to not view it as what my first marriage was, but what this marriage is: friendship; love; trust. It's not something we 'work' at, it just is. Easy and uncomplicated.
Maybe I have, or maybe I haven't left my mark on others but I'd like to think I have in some small way. Others have left their mark on me by way of helping me when I wouldn't even admit to myself that I needed it; inspiring me in some way; or just being there in friendship. Even the bad marks can help you if you let them, and I've had a few of those as well.
So, although I'm just a regular person living a regular life, I will be remembered. Not by the world at large and I am more than fine with that, but by those that mean the most to me and hopefully a few I've touched along the way.
Bette
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