Sunday Story...Musings on Mortality

Lately, I've been musing on mortality. As you can tell from the last couple of posts, I have now reached what would be considered three-quarters of the way to 100. When I turned 50, I said, "Maybe I'm middle-aged. Got 50 more years to go." But now, on the cusp of 70, it's only 30. And that feels like the blink of an eye.

None of us is getting out of here alive; that's been the fact since the day you were born. Everything we do is to live the most fruitful and productive lives we can, making connections, building relationships, providing value to the world, and discovering our purpose —the one we were put on this planet to fulfill.

But the question is, did we get there? Did you manage to do that? Did you find your purpose? Did you fulfill your purpose? These are some of the questions that I've been asking myself. I worry that I haven't done enough to achieve the purpose for which I was put here. I fear that I will leave behind more problems than I solved.

Most of these questions are unanswerable, or the answers may elude us in our own lifetimes. The people that we leave behind will have those answers. They will know if you've done enough, and they will see if you solved more problems than you left. In many ways, the people, the relationships, the connections that we leave behind are, in fact, our legacy.

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John Mariotti

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