Monday, February 4, 2008

Just Thinking

I know I am not the only person who thinks about death, or how I'm going to die, or what people will think of me after my death. Well, even moreso than usual, I've been thinking about the last part, what people will think of me after my death. Will they say the ever so popular "He was a good man and a good father" or will no one even notice the passing of myself?
I know, this is a random topic, but it kinda isn't. It started after I watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Mr. Magorium is a toy store owner who it 264 years old (I think...he's somewhere around there) and he talks about when Shakespeare wrote King Lear (I could be wrong about which play) and King Lear dies at the end, all Shakespeare writes is "He Dies" and that even one of the most influential characters of all time, all Shakespeare can say is, "He Dies" Magorium continues to say that, that is what he wants to be written on his tomb stone.
Now, I've been thinking about that thinking, I want to be remembered. Not as a tomb stone but as a person, and an influence. Today, I was reading Psalms 1 and happened to look back a page at Job 42:17 (this is the last verse in the book of Job) and it says "Then he died, an old man who lived a long, full life"
That is how I want to be remembered. A man who died, but, he lived a long and full life to the best of his abilities.
~Phillip Andrew

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